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Welcome To Sirin - سيرين (סירין)

District of Baysan
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Occupation Date April 6, 1948
Distance From District 17 (km) North of Baysan
Elevation 200 (meters)
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Military Operation Operation Gideon
Attacking Units Golani Brigade
Exodus Cause Abandonment based on Arab orders
Village Temains Sirin was completely destroyed, and only its cemetery and one of its houses remain standing.
Ethnically Cleansing Sirin inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 16,589
Jewish 477
Public 11,379
**Total 28,445
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 413 0
Olive Groves 109 0
Planted W/ Cereal 15,342 471
Built up 131 0
Arable 15,755 471
Non-Arable 12,082 6
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 22
1922 581
1931 630
1945 810
1948 940
Est. Refugees 1998 5,770
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 161
1948 240
Near By Townswhat's new
Ma'dhar
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'Awlam
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al-Tira  ←
Sirin
→   al-Dalhamiyya
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Danna
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al-Bira
Schools An elementary school for boys.
Archeological Sites The village contains the remains of a mosaic pavement and a vaulted spring with the fragment of a cornice from the Byzantine period.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 No Israeli settlements on village lands.
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on flat terrain that sloped slightly southwestward. The village site was bounded on the northwest by Wadi al-Ruduh and on the southeast by Wadi al-Bayadir. A secondary road linked it to a highway leading to Samakh, to the north, and Baysan, to the south; other secondary roads and narrow paths connected it to neighboring villages. The Crusaders called it Losserin. In 1596, Sirin was a village in the nahiya of Jenin (liwa' of Lajjun), with a population of twenty-two. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat and barley, as well as on other types of produce, such as goats and beehives. The British traveler Buckingham, who toured the area in the early nineteenth century, described it as a village of about thirty to forty houses with half a dozen Bedouins' tents close to it.

In the late nineteenth century, Sirin was surrounded by hedges of prickly pear; its 100 residents cultivated 35 faddans (1 faddan = 100-250 dunums). The houses were originally built at the intersection of the roads linking it to other villages, but as the village expanded its newer houses stretched out in a northwest-southeast direction. Of the 810 people who inhabited the village in 1945, 190 were Christians and 620 were Muslims. Sirin had one elementary school, which was for boys. Agriculture was the mainstay of the village economy, the chief crops being grain and olives. In 1944/45 a total of 14,854 dunums was allocated to cereals; 413 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, 109 dunums of which were planted with olive trees. A Greek inscription was found in the house of Zayd al-Shihada. Other remains from the Byzantine period include a mosaic pavement and a vaulted spring with the fragment of a cornice.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Units of the Golani Brigade occupied the village on 12 May 1948, probably as a result of the conquest of Baysan that same day. Sirin, together with Ulam, Hadatha, and Ma'dhar, were seized in the same offensive. The History of the Haganah states that 'their inhabitants fled in fear of the Jews. And Jewish lower Galilee [sic] became empty of Arabs...' Israeli historian Benny Morris gives a somewhat different and less plausible version of the depopulation of these villages. He writes that the inhabitants of all four villages were ordered to leave the previous month, on 6 April, by the Arab Higher Committee (AHC). This was probably done, he claims, because the AHC feared that the villages would 'throw in their lot with the Yishuv.'

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land.

Village Today

The cemetery and one house (which serves as a storage room for straw) are all that remain of Sirin. Stone rubble surrounded by clusters of cactuses can be seen on the site. The site itself is used as a stockyard for cattle. The spring in the middle of the site is covered with a stone structure. Some of the land around the village is planted in cotton.

Source

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