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Welcome To al-Damun - الدامون (א-דאמון)

District of Acre
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Occupation Date July 15, 1948
Distance From District 11.5 (km) Southeast of Acre
Elevation 35 (meters)
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Map Location See location #24 on the map

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Military Operation Dekel
Attacking Units Sheva' (Seventh) Brigade
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village was completely destroyed soon after occupation, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Damun inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 19,073
Jewish 687
Public 597
**Total 20,357
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 706 3
Olive Groves 484 0
Planted W/ Cereal 16,368 684
Built up 111 0
Arable 17,074 687
Non-Arable 2,485 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
19th century 800
1922 727
1931 917
1945 1,310
1948 1,520
Est. Refugees 1998 9,332
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 183
1948 303
Near By Townswhat's new
Acre
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al-Birwa
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Sha'ab
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Zionist Colonies  ←
al-Damun
→   Kabul
            ↙
Tamra
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Tamra
Town's Name Through History The Crusaders referred to al-Damun by Damar.
Schools al-Damun had one elementary school for boys which was founded by the Ottomans in 1886.
Places of Warship One famous mosque
Nearby Wadies & Rivers al-Damun borders al-Na'amin River.
Water Supply Several nearby springs were used to provide drinking water, and al-Na'amin's River water was utilized for irrigation.
Archeological Sites al-Damun has a khirba/tall that contains the foundations of a wall, fortifications, and a well.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Yas'ur
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Village Before Nakba

The village was spread across the flat top and sides of a rocky hill, on the eastern tip of the Acre plain. Secondary roads linked it to the Acre-Safad and Acre-Haifa highways. Its inhabitants traced their origins back to the al-Zaydaniyya tribe, which had emigrated from the Hijaz in the Arabian peninsula. The Muslim traveler Nasir Khusraw mentioned that he visited al-Damun in 1047, saying that he reached it from al-Birwa and visited the shrine of Dhu al-Kifl, a saintly personage mentioned in the Qur'an (sura XXI, aya 85). The Crusaders referred to it as Damar. In the nineteenth century, al-Damun was a village surrounded by olive groves; its population in 1859 was estimated at 800. It contained two small mosques.
At the beginning of this century, al-Damun's houses were clustered along one road. Starting in 1935, the villagers began to build them with reinforced concrete. The population consisted of 1,240 Muslims and 70 Christians. Al-Damun had an elementary school, established by the Ottomans in 1886, and a renowned mosque. The inhabitants drew their drinking water from springs and irrigated some of their crops from the Na'amin River. They also engaged in allied activities, especially the plaiting of mats and baskets from the esparto grass and rushes that grew on the river banks. Grain-wheat, sorghum, and barley-and olives were the chief crops, but the village was also known for its watermelons and cantaloupes. In 1944/45 a total of 16,256 dunums was planted in cereals; 706 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 484 dunums were planted with olive trees. West of the village lay a tell that contained the foundations of a wall, fortifications, and a well.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

After the initial Israeli successes in central Galilee during the first stage of Operation Dekel , units of the Sheva' (Seventh) Brigade moved westwards to take control of a number of western Galilee villages. Al-Damun was among them, falling in the second stage of Operation Dekel on 15-16 July 1948, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris. However, Palestinian historian Aref al-Aref dates its capture much earlier, in late May 1948, following the fall of Acre. Morris reports that the inhabitants were demoralized by the fall of Acre and Nazareth, and that some fled during the bombardment that preceded the attack on the village. The remainder were expelled and the village itself was completely destroyed, according to both al-Aref and Morris.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land. Yas'ur built on lands belonging to the neighboring al-Birwa, uses the lands of al-Damun for agriculture. This settlement, nearly 3 km northwest of al-Damun, was established in January 1949.

Village Today

The site is overgrown with thorns, cactuses, olive trees, and pines. Stone and concrete rubble is scattered around it. The structure that formerly protected the central water source (a spring) and regulated its flow stands untended and is collapsing in several places. The cemetery is extant, although the markers over a few graves are collapsing. The settlement of Yas'ur uses the land around the site, particularly the lands in the Acre valley, for agricultural purposes.

Source

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