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Welcome To al-Zeeb - الزيب (א-זיב)

District of Acre
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Occupation Date May 14, 1948
Distance From District 13.5 (km) North of Acre
Elevation 25 (meters)
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Military Operation Operation Ben Ami
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains In December 1948, al-Zeeb was mostly destroyed with the exception of the village mosque and one house only.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Zeeb inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 12,438
Jewish 0
Public 169
**Total 12,607
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 2,972
Irrigated & Plantation 1,989
Olive Groves 2,000
Planted W/ Cereal 4,425
Built up 62
Arable 9,386
Non-Arable 3,159
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 875
19th century 400
1931 1,059
1945 1,910
1948 2,216
Est. Refugees 1998 13,606
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 251
1948 525
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al-Bassa
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Mediterranean  ←
al-Zeeb
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al-Mazra'a
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Umm al-Faraj
Town's Name Through History Canaanite referred to al-Zeeb by Akzib (trickster), the Romans called it Ecdippa, and the Crusaders identified it either by Casal Lambertie or Imbert.
Schools al-Zeeb had an elementary school which was founded by the Ottomans in 1882.
Town's Notable People The famous 18th century Muslim scholar and judge Abu 'Ali al-Zeebi was born in the village.
Places of Warship The village has one mosque, which remained intact to this date. It was renovated and now is being used as Tourist attraction!
Archeological Sites al-Zeeb contains foundations of buildings, floors, a cistern, and rock-carved tools. In addition, it has six nearby khirbas within its boundaries.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Kibbutz Gesher ha-Ziv, Sa'ar, and Leman.
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on a dome–shaped hill on the Mediterranean coast, east of the coastal highway and the railway line. It was established on top of a Canaanite town, Akzib ('trickster'), which was taken by the Assyrians in 701 B.C. Archaeological excavations have shown that settlement began long before this date, in the eighteenth century B.C., and that by the tenth century B.C. there was a walled town on the site. The Romans called it Ecdippa and the Crusaders either Casal (small citadel) Lambertie or lmbert. The Arab geographer Ibn Jubayr, who toured the area in 1182–84, said only that the village lay between Acre and Tyre. Later, another Arab geographer, Yaqut al-Hamawi (d. 1228), described al-Zeeb as a large village on the coast near Acre. In 1596, al-Zeeb was a village in the nahiya of Akka (liwa' of Safad), with a population of 875. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, summer crops, fruits, and cotton, as well as on other types of property, such as goats and beehives and water buffalos. An eighteenth–century Muslim scholar and judge, Abu Ali al-Zibi, was born in the village. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the British traveler Buckingham referred to it as a small town built on a hill near the sea with a few palm trees rising above the houses.

In the late nineteenth century, al-Zeeb was a village built of stone and situated on the seashore. The villagers, who were Muslims and who numbered about 400, cultivated olives, figs, mulberries, and pomegranates. The village also contained a small mosque. In more recent times al-Zeeb was square–shaped its houses were bunched close together and were made of stone and mud, stone and cement, and reinforced concrete. The village had an elementary school, founded by the Ottomans in 1882, a mosque, and a clinic. The villagers were engaged in fishing and agriculture, especially fruit cultivation. In 1944/45 a total of 2,972 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 4,425 dunums were allocated to cereals; 1,989 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Between 1927 and 1945 the fish catch averaged over sixteen metric tons per year. The village had two animal–drawn olive presses and two mechanized presses. There was an archaeological site in the village that contained the foundations of buildings, floors, a cistern, and rock–carved tombs. In addition, there were six khirbas within a 4 km radius around al-Zeeb

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

On 13–14 May 1948, the Haganah's Carmeli Brigade initiated an invasion of the northwest corner of Palestine. Al-Zeeb was one of the main villages targeted during the offensive known as Operation Ben-Ami. The History of the Haganah's account of the occupation states: 'The inhabitants fled at the appearance of the Jewish forces, and the Haganah command decided to hold onto [it].' But Israeli historian Benny Morris contradicts this version. He states that the Haganah 'had a long account' with the village (apparently because it had been a center of resistance) and that most of the villagers fled during a mortar barrage unleashed as part of the assault on the village. The villagers themselves corroborated this version, recalling a battle that involved an element of surprise. Interviewed by Palestinian historian Nafez Nazzal, they said that the Zionist forces were initially mistaken for Arab reinforcements, since they were wearing red and white Arab headdresses, and that they overwhelmed the thirty–five or forty men who had formed the village militia. Some villagers who were unable to flee during the battle stayed behind and were later moved to the village of al-Mazra'a, which became the collection point for Arab 'remainders' in Western Galilee. The operation's commander, Moshe Carmel, ordered the village to be razed to the ground in order to 'punish' the villagers and make sure they 'could and would never return.'

In December 1948, Yosef Weitz, the director of the Jewish National Fund's Lands Department, visited al-Zib and noted that it had been 'completely leveled,' adding, 'I now wonder if it was good that it was destroyed and would not have been a greater revenge had we now settled Jews in the village houses.'

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

A kibbutz named Beyt ha-Arava was established on the ruins of the village on 27 January 1949; its name was later changed to Kibbutz Gesher ha-Ziv. Jewish immigrants from England, the United States, and South Africa were placed in Gesher ha-Ziv, which is on village lands, close to the village site. The settlement of Sa'ar was established south of the village site in 1948. Another settlement, Leman, is close by, on lands that belonged to the village of al-Bassa.

Village Today

All that remains of the village is the mosque, which has been restored for tourism, and the house of the mukhtar (the village head) Husayn Ataya, which is now a museum. The house is relatively large and made of masonry. The stone mosque has a dome and a large decorative arch on the front facade. There is a side annex made of two monumental archways. A number of tombstones with inscribed identifications are shown in the museum. One has a Quranic verse, identifies the dead man as Ahmad al-Musa, and records the date of his death as 14 September 1938. Some archaeological artifacts may still be found, including the remains of stone arches near the mosque. The site and adjacent land are used as a recreation area and tourist attraction.

Source

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