PalestineRemembered About Us Oral History العربية
Menu Pictures Zionist FAQs Haavara Maps
PalestineRemembered.com Satellite View Search Donate Contact Us Looting 101 العربية
About Us Zionist FAQs Conflict 101 Pictures Maps Oral History Haavara Facts Not Lies Zionism 101 Zionist Quotes

Welcome To al-Nahr - النهر (א-נהר)

District of Acre
Ethnically cleansed days ago

العربية

Google Earth
Picture for al-Nahr Village - Palestine: : داخل بيت محمود سعيد -- May 2008 #2
Gallery (141)
Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 21, 1948
Distance From District 14 (km) Northeast of Acre
Elevation 65 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Pre-Nakba Aerial Viewwhat's new
Pre-Nakba Aerial View
Map Location See location #14 on the map

View from satellite
Military Operation The second phase of Operation Ben-Ami
Attacking Units Carmeli Brigade
Acts of Terror Massacre occured by Zionist troops against the town's inhabitants.
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains al-Nahr was mostly destroyed and defaced.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Nahr inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 5,243
Jewish 0
Public 18
**Total 5,261
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 2,066
Irrigated & Plantation 1,937
Olive Groves 310
Planted W/ Cereal 1,094
Built up 28
Arable 5,097
Non-Arable 136
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1931 522
1945 610
1948 708
Est. Refugees 1998 4,345
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 120
1948 162
Near By Townswhat's new
al-Zeeb
         
al-Kabri

(N)
Mi'ilya
       
Nahariya  
   al-Ghabisiyya
           
al-Mazra'a
Town's Name Through History The Ottoman Yearbook referred to the site as belonging to the villages of Tall and Qahwa.
Archeological Sites al-Nahr was established on an archaeological site called Tall al-Qahwa.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
Ben 'Ammi and Kabri.
Featured Video

Village Before Nakba

The village, a twin of al-Tall, was situated on a sandy, slightly elevated mound which, like many other tells in Palestine, was the site of an ancient settlement. Recent investigations by Aaron Kempinsky indicate that both al-Nahr and its sister village of al-Tall, to the west, stood on archaeological debris that dated back to the eighteenth century B.C. Al-Nahr was established on an archaeological site called Tall al-Qahwa ('the mound of coffee'); the 1904 Ottoman Yearbook for Beirut referred to the site as belonging to the villages of Tall and Qahwa. It was in the eastern part of the coastal plain in the Galilee region and lay on the Tarshiha–Nahariyya–Acre highway. It had a rectangular layout and a southeast–northwest orientation. Its houses were built from a variety of materials―stone blocks and cement or mud mortar or reinforced concrete―and were bunched close together. Al-Nahr's entire population was Muslim. Agriculture and animal husbandry were the principal sources of livelihood for the villagers. In 1944/45 a total of 2,066 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 1,094 dunums were allocated to cereals; 1,937 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 30 dunums were planted in olive trees.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Along with a series of villages in western Galilee, north of Acre, al-Nahr was captured on 20–21 May 1948, during the second phase of Operation Ben-Ami. The day before launching the incursion, the commander of the Haganah's Carmeli Brigade ordered his battalion commanders 'to attack in order to conquer, to kill among the men, to destroy and burn the villages of Al Kabri, Umm al Faraj and An Nahr.'

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Morris indicates that the Israeli settlement that replaced the village in 1949 is Ben Ammi, named after Ben Ammi Pechter, the Haganah commander who had been killed in a skirmish close to nearby Nahariyya in March 1948; the military operation in which al-Nahr was seized was also named after him. Another settlement, Kabri, makes use of the village lands.

Village Today

Only two houses remain, and one of them is partially destroyed. A tall date–palm tree grows on the village site, which is overgrown by wild grasses, a few cactuses, and fig trees. The cemetery, on the western side of the village, contains one identifiable grave. The nearby Fawwara spring has been fenced in and declared private property.

Source

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

Related Maps Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
خرائط للقضاء توضح حدود القرى والاودية
Town's map on MapQuest
View from satellite
Help us map this town at WikiMapia
Related Links Wikipedia's Page
Google Search
Google For Images
Google For Videos
More Information مخطط البلد
في كتاب كي لا ننسى
في كتاب بلادنا فلسطين

Bibliography and References

Want to browse more? 80,000 pictures were grouped in these gallaries:

Display Name Clan/Hamolah Country of Residence
نعمة أحمد شحادة ازدحمد إيسن, ألمانيا
Saria Cheaib - Beirut, Beirut
khaled atieh - volklingen deutschland
علي صالح محمد علي البياع - qatar, qatar
محمد البياع البياع الدوحه, دولة قطر
Said Tamalawi - South, Lebanon
ابو سمرا موسى صيدا, لبنان
ghada mbarki - -
rula - akka
Nadim Ezhamad - -
احمد شحادة -
Adnan Atiyeh Atiyeh Berlin, Germany
محمد عطية عطية سورية, سورية
Mohammad Merhi Merhi Al-Afifi Abra, Saida, Lebanon
Monah Ahmad Zaghloul Zaghloul Dubai, United Arab Emirates
يافا خالد عطية عطية سورية, سورية
om salih attiya -
SALIH KHALID ATTIYA ATTIYA SYRIA, SYRIA
هبة ازدحمد - -
Luay Merhi - saida, Lebanon
Ali - Mazraa' village
Riad Merhi Al Afifi Saida, Lebanon, Lebanon
Ali - UAE, United Arab Emirates
Amal El-Chazli - Beirut, Lebanon
asslan Asslan Mazraa village
Dareen Abu Alkheer - Canada
Fadi Izhamad - South, Lebanon
Khalid El-Shazli - -
En. Khalid attiya foad attiya aleppo , syria-aleppo-nerap camp
YOUSSEF IDIAB IDIAB DANMARK, DANMARK
M. MOUSA Mousa Canada
lolo alnahr saida, lebanon
Joumana Mar'i Merhi-Afifi Sharjah, U.A.E.
Shahnaz Merhi Mrs.Shahnaz Diab Saida-Lebanon
Ousama Merhi Merhi South, Lebanon
All Registered Members
Fake Valor: Why Did Zionist Jews Hoist Nazis Flag on Their Ships in the 1930s?

What is new?