Welcome To Danna - دنه (דנה)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

May 28, 1948

Distance From District

13 (km) North of Baysan

Elevation

100 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Pre-Nakba Aerial View

Map Location

See location #4 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Gidion Operation

Attacking Units

Golani Brigade

Exodus Cause

Expulsion by Zionist troops

Village Temains

In September 1948, the village was completely destroyed and only house rubble left behind.

Ethnically Cleansing

Danna inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	5,177
Jewish	206
Public	1,231
**Total	6,614

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	14	0
Planted W/ Cereal	5,132	206
Built up	15	0
Arable	5,146	206
Non-Arable	1,247	0

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1596	28
1922	176
1931	149
1945	190
1948	220
Est. Refugees 1998	1,354

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	28
1948	41

Near By Towns

al-Tira ↖	Sirin ↑ (N)	Wadi al-Bira ↗
	Danna	→ al-Bira
↙ al-Taiyiba	↓ Yubla

Town's Name Through History

The Romans referred Danna by Tina'am.

Places of Warship

One mosque

Shrines / Maqams

A shrine for local sage known as al-Shaykh Daniyal.

Nearby Wadies & Rivers

Danna stands on the upper Northeastern slopes of Wadi Danna.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

No Israeli settlements on village lands.

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on the upper northeastern slope of Wadi Danna, a tributary of Wadi al-Bira. It may have been built on the site of the village of Tina'am, which dated from the Roman period. A secondary road linked it to the Afula-Baysan highway, and the pipeline of the Iraq Petroleum Company passed through village land en route to Haifa. In 1596, Danna was a village in the nahiya of Shafa (liwa' of Lajjun), with a population of twenty-eight. It paid taxes to the Ottoman government on a number of crops, including wheat and barley, and on other types of produce, such as goats and beehives. The Swiss traveler Burckhardt, who passed through the area in the early nineteenth century, mentioned the village without providing a description.

In the late nineteenth century, the village of Danna was situated on a slope, and was surrounded by farmland. There was a spring with a watering trough to the west. The village houses were built of stone and mud. The village was shaped like a rectangle whose longer sides were aligned in a north-south direction. During the British Mandate the village expanded and new houses, constructed of stone and adobe brick, were built along the road to the nearby village of Kafra. It was classified in this period as a hamlet in the Palestine Index Gazetteer. There were a few shops and a mosque that contained the shrine of a Shaykh Daniyal. The village spring provided water for the residents, all of whom were Muslims. They worked primarily in rainfed agriculture. In 1944/45 a total of 5,097 dunums was allotted to cereals; 14 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Grass and leafy vegetation grew on the slopes and peaks of the neighboring mountains and were used for grazing.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The inhabitants of Danna were expelled on 28 May 1948, the same day that the remaining townspeople of nearby Baysan were transferred to Nazareth by the Israeli army. The Golani Brigade was responsible for occupying the Baysan Valley and carrying out these expulsions.

Morris reports that by September 1948, the destruction of the village was already underway. The demolition was criticized by a local kibbutz leader, who argued that the village might agree to allocate part of its land for settlement purposes. This indicates that at least some villagers may have remained in Danna or returned after their expulsion. But it is not clear what happened to them after that.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land.

Village Today

Bushes, cactus plants, thorns, and grass now grow around piles of rubble on the village site . Thick weeds grow in the wadi and near the spring. The lands in the area are cultivated by Israeli farmers.

Source

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

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Pre-Nakba Aerial view of the village / صورة من الجو للقرية اخذت قبل النكبة

Display Name	Clan/Hamolah	Country of Residence
الحسيني	الحسيني	-
abu omar	abdeljabar	aqaba, jordan
omaralhossaini	-	riyadh, kingdom of saudi arabia
OMAR ALSHALABI	-	north carolina, usa
FADEL ALSHALABI	ALSHALABI	NORTH CAROLINA, USA
mowafi75	-	-
saba al-shalabi	-	-
Ahmad Alkhatib Alsadi	السعدي	Jeddah-Saudi Arabia
lubna alshalabi	Al shalabi	-

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