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Welcome To al-Fatur - الفاتور (אל-פאתור)

District of Baysan
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Picture for al-Fatur Village - Palestine: : تل الردغة تاريخ الصورة 26/10/2007
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 12, 1948
Distance From District 11.5 (km) South 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 #29 on the map

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Military Operation Gidion Operation
Attacking Units Most likely Golani Brigades
Defenders Arab Liberation Army
Acts of Terror Massacre occured by Zionist troops against the town's inhabitants.
Village Temains al-Fatur was completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing In mid February 1948, al-Fatur inhabitants were mostly terrorized and displaced out of their homes by the racist Zionists.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 709
Jewish 0
Public 20
**Total 729
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Planted W/ Cereal 709
Arable 709
Non-Arable 20
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1931 66
1945 110
1948 128
Est. Refugees 1998 784
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 16
1948 31
Near By Townswhat's new
al-Khunayzir

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Bardala  
   Jordan River
Town's Name Through History The village was also known by al-Shaykh al-Fatur too.
Water Supply The village still has the spring of al-Fatur which used to supply it with drinking water.
Archeological Sites The village has two khirbas: the 1st is Shaykh al-Fatur and the 2nd Shaykh Radgha.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
No Israeli settlements on village lands.
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Village Today

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"The village has been destroyed and the surrounding land has been planted in wheat by the Israeli colony of Mechola (see photo). The rubble of structures from Shaykh al-Fatur is overgrown with thorns and doum palm trees. The spring of al-Fatur lies immediately to the north of the rubble."
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