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Welcome To Mi'ar - ميعار (מיעאר)

District of Acre
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Occupation Date July 15, 1948
Distance From District 17.5 (km) Southeast of Acre
Elevation 275 (meters)
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Map Location See location #25 on the map

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Military Operation Second stage of Operation Dekel
Attacking Units Sheva' (Seventh) Brigade
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains Mi'ar was completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing Mi'ar inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 10,785
Jewish 0
Public 3
**Total 10,788
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 113
Olive Groves 361
Planted W/ Cereal 2,878
Built up 37
Arable 2,991
Non-Arable 7,760
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 55
19th century 1,500
1922 429
1931 543
1945 770
1948 893
Est. Refugees 1998 5,485
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 109
1948 179
Near By Townswhat's new
Sha'ab
↑
(N)
Kabul  ←
Mi'ar
→   Sakhnin
            ↙
Tamra
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Kawkab Abu al-Heija
Town's Name Through History The Crusades referred to Mi'ar by Myary.
Schools An elementary school which was founded by the Ottomans in 1888, however, it closed its doors in the final years of the Empire.
Archeological Sites Mi'ar contains the remains of buildings, fragments of columns, olive presses, and cisterns.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Segev, Ya'ad, and Manof.
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a rocky hill at the eastern tip of the plain of Acre. A secondary road linked it to al-Damun, to the northwest. Its archaeology suggests that it dated back to Canaanite times ; the Crusaders knew it as Myary. In 1596, Mi'ar was a village in the nahiya of Akka (liwa' of Safad), with a population of 55. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and fruit, as well as on other types of produce, such as goats and beehives. In the late nineteenth century, Mi'ar was a large village situated on high ground that was rough and uncultivated. The residents of the village, who were estimated at 1,500 in 1859, cultivated some thirty faddans (1 faddan = 100-250 dunums).

In recent times, the houses of the village were made of stone. The Ottomans established a school in Mi'ar in 1888 but it was closed in the final years of the Empire. All of the people living in Mi'ar were Muslims. In 1944/45 they allocated a total of 2,878 dunums of their land to cereals; 113 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. A number of archaeological artifacts were found within and outside the village perimeters, including rock carvings, the remains of buildings, fragments of columns, olive presses, and cisterns.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

In the second stage of the Israeli army's Operation Dekel , military units closed in on Mi'ar from recently-occupied areas in Lower Galilee. The village was entered by units of the Sheva' (Seventh) Brigade between 15 and 18 July 1948, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris. Morris' account implies that the villagers fled either as a result of artillery salvos or under the influence of the occupation of large parts of Lower Galilee.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Segev was founded to the east of Mi'ar in 1953. Ya'ad was established in 1975 to the northeast of the village, and in 1980 Manof was built. All are on village lands. The settlement of Yuvallim), built in 1982 on land that traditionally belonged to nearby Sakhnin, is about 2 km due east of the site.

Village Today

Some truncated stone walls, simple graves, and fig and olive trees remain on the site, which is covered by cypress trees. The area has been turned into recreational and picnic grounds.

Source

Dr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains.
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