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Welcome To Zab'a - زبعة (זבעה)

District of Baysan
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 12, 1948
Distance From District 5.5 km Northeast of Baysan
Elevation -225 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #14 on the map

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Military Operation Opeartion Gideon
Village Temains The village was completely defaced
Ethnically Cleansing Zab'a inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 156
Jewish 3,424
Public 388
**Total 3,968
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Planted W/ Cereal 156 3,364
Built up 0 60
Arable 156 3,364
Non-Arable 388 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1931 147
1945 170
1948 197
Est. Refugees 1998 551
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 37
1948 49
Near By Townswhat's new
Umm Sabuna, Khirbat
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Jabbul  ←
Zab'a
→   Jordan River
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'Arab al-Bawati
Nearby Wadies & Rivers The village is situated on Wadi Yubla or Wadi al-'Ashsha (the same wadi has two names).
Archeological Sites Zab'a contains Tall Isma'il which was used by a local Bedouins tribe as a cemetery.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Beyt Yosef & Doshe
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Village Before Nakba

The village was located on Wadi Yubla (also called Wadi al-'Ashsha), at the point where the wadi entered the Jordan Valley area. Both the Baysan-Jericho highway and the railway line leading from Haifa to Samakh (and ultimately to the Hijaz railway) passed directly to the east. The village, which was classified as a hamlet by the Palestine Index Gazetteer, had a rectangular plan. Its adobe houses and narrow alleys ran from northwest to southeast, away from the wadi; they may have been laid out in this pattern so that they would not be flooded in winter.

The village's location, the richness of its soil, and its abundant water supplies made it an early target for takeover by the Zionists during the British Mandate. Zab'a's inhabitants, all of whom were Muslims, were successful farmers and grew vegetables, fruit, and grain before their land was acquired by Jewish settlers. In 1944/45 all of the 156 dunums that were left in the hands of the villagers were allocated to cereals. Two km east of the village was Tall Isma'il, on top of which was a Bedouin cemetery. Because the soil of such mounds, which contain the remains of earlier settlements, is soft, they are attractive to Bedouin as cemetery sites.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

In 1937 Zionists established the settlement of Beyt Yosef some 2 km northeast of the village site, on land that they had purchased but that had once belonged to the village. Doshen, a farm belonging to the 'Yitzur ve-Pittu'ach' organization, was established in 1955 on village land, close to the village site.

Village Today

The site is covered with grass, lotus trees, and stones. Israelis have established several agricultural projects and fisheries on the village land. Other parts of the surrounding land are used for grazing.

Source

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