Resettlement of displaced Palestinian Arabs of Arab al-Zubeid (Safad Sub-District) in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba), British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume I - Page 298. Section 8: Administrative Problems Regarding to State Holdings : (c)

CHAPTER VIII.

152. In view of this refusal, the possibility of making other arrangements for the settlement of the tribe on land lying in the vicinity of the Wadi Hawarith was investigated. The northern section of the Wadi Hawarith Arabs was accordingly settled on a State Domain in the Tulkarm sub-district known as Has set Sheikh Mohammad (GP/5/62--Wadi el Hawarith). This area consisted mainly of swampy land bordered by sand dunes and is 1,568 dunums in extent. After it had been drained and deep ploughed the land was allotted equally among the ninety families'. The southern section, numbering 109 families, are camped on an area of 250 dunums (GP/5/54-Ma'baroth) taken by Government from the Jewish National Fund in exchange for a parcel of State Domain. These Arabs are cultivating land in the neighbouring Wadi Qabbani and elsewhere which they rent from the owners. Both the northern and southern sections of the Wadi Hawarith Arabs have declined to enter into any lease of the Government land which they occupy, but they pay a nominal rent.

THE ARAB ZUBEID OF THE SAFAD SUB-DISTRICT.

153. These Arabs, numbering some 68 families, having been evicted from their camping grounds, Government authorised the provision for them of a new camping site in the Safad sub-district near an area of land which the owner was willing to allow them to cultivate. This site, which was the property of the Palestine Jewish Colonisation Association, was received by Government in exchange for a neighbouring parcel of State Domain of which the Association had already a long term lease. The Arab Zubeid were given a loan of £P.100 per family; they have settled permanently on the new site and built houses there, although in the past they had been tent-dwelling nomads. In 1944 the ownership of the land was transferred by Government to the new occupiers.

OTHER RE-SETTLEMENT SCHEMES.

154. In addition to the Arabs of Wadi el Hawarith and the Arab Zubeid, some 100 families, evicted from different parts of. the country, expressed their willingness to take up land under Government schemes, and for these families three settlements were started in 1934, one at Tel esh Shauk in the Beisan subdistrict and the others at Muqeibla and Beit Qad in the Jeniri sub-district.

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