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District of Acre
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Occupation Date | May 21, 1948 | ||||||||||||||||
Distance From District | 14 (km) Northeast of Acre | ||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 65 (meters) | ||||||||||||||||
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Map Location | See location #14 on the map View from satellite |
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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 |
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps |
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Land Usage As of 1945 |
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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. | ||||||||||||||||
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Village Before NakbaThe 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 CleaningAlong 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 LandsMorris 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 TodayOnly 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.SourceDr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains. |
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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 |
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More Information | مخطط البلد في كتاب كي لا ننسى في كتاب بلادنا فلسطين |
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 |