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| al-Wa'ra al-Sawda', Khirbat District of Tiberias خربة الوعرة السوداء - ח ירבת אל-וערה א-סודא Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
April 18, 1948
Distance from district center
7.5 (km) Northeast of Tiberias
Elevation from the sea
25 (meters)
Map location
See location number #6 on the map
Israeli military operation
Possibly Operation Dekal
Israeli acts of terror
Little unknown massacre committed while the village was being occupied. Fifteen plus villagers were rounded up and shot dead. Some villagers who survived the massacre, lived to talk about it in Syria. Further details about this little massacre are missing, so please be free to share any information you may know about it.
Refugees' migration route
Some of 'Arab al-Mawasi escaped to Syria and some stayed behind in the inner Galilee.
Exodus Cause
Expulsion by Jewish troops
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisThe village was completely obliterated
Ethnically cleansing
by Israelisal-Wa'ra al-Sawda', Khirbat inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Village clans or hamolas
The villagers belonged mainly to the 'Arab al-Mawasi clan, but some families were of the 'Arab Wuhayb
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
7,036
Jewish
7
Public
0
Total
7,036
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Planted W/ Cereal
2,027
Built up
10
Cultivable
2,027
Non-Cultivable
4,999
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1931
1,060
1945
1,870
1948
2,169
Est. Refugees 1998
13,321
Number of houses
In (1931): 190 (161 'Arab al-Mawasi, 29 Arab al-Wuhayb)
Shrines/maqams
Two shrines: the 1st was for al-Shaykh 'Umar and 2nd was for al-Shaykh Musa al-Qadhim.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Ravid and Arbel
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
No traces of the houses remain. Stone terraces provide the only indication of a former village on the site
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