Welcome To al-Hamidiyya - الحميديه (אל-חמידיה)

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Occupation Date

May 12, 1948

Distance From District

5 (km) North of Baysan

Elevation

-10 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #15 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Operation Gideon

Attacking Units

Golani Brigade

Exodus Cause

Influence of fall of, or exoduce from, neighboring town

Village Temains

al-Hamidiyya was completely destroyed, only house rubble and cemetery left behind.

Ethnically Cleansing

al-Hamidiyya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	4,814
Jewish	1,386
Public	4,720
**Total	10,902

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves	164	0
Irrigated & Plantation	8	4
Planted W/ Cereal	5,261	1,289
Built up	10	40
Arable	5,433	1,293
Non-Arable	4,237	53

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1922	193
1931	157
1945	320 (100 Jewish)
1948	255 (100 Jewish)
Est. Refugees 1998	1,567

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	42
1948	68

Near By Towns

	Jabbul ↑ (N)	Zab'a ↗
al-Murassas ←	al-Hamidiyya	→ 'Arab al-Bawati
	↓ Baysan

Town's Name Through History

The village was named after the Ottoman sultan 'Abd al-Hamid II (1876-1909).

Shrines / Maqams

A shrine for a local sage known as Maqam Khalid.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Chamadya

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a hill overlooking the Baysan Valley to the east, Wadi Yubla to the north, and the lands of the town of Baysan to the south. The village, which relied on Baysan for administrative and commercial services, was named after the Ottoman sultan Abd al-Hamid II (1876-1909). It was linked to a highway leading to Baysan by a secondary road that was approximately 2 km long. Other roads connected it to four neighboring villages. It had a rectangular plan with narrow streets that intersected to form a grid. Its houses were built of adobe brick. During its slow expansion in the first half of this century, newer houses were built of cement along the roads that linked it to the nearby villages. The village was classified as a hamlet by the Palestine Index Gazetteer. In the northeastern part of al-Hamidiyya there was a shrine, Maqam Khalid, for a local Muslim saint. Al-Hamidiyya's population, which was Muslim, worked primarily in agriculture. The village lands were planted in grain and various vegetables. In 1944/45 a total of 164 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 4,395 dunums were allotted to cereals; 8 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The Golani Brigade successfully attacked Baysan and 'cleared' most of the Baysan Valley of its inhabitants in an offensive mounted in the first half of May 1948. Al-Hamidiyya was one of the few villages that had remained. Its people left on 12 May 'under the influence of the exodus from the town of Beisan and under pressure from the Haganah,' according to Israeli historian Benny Morris. He does not specify what kind of pressure was involved. In September, neighboring Zionist settlements applied to the Israeli authorities for permission to demolish the village (as well as three others in the area). It is not clear from Morris' account whether permission was granted or when the destruction was carried out.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Chermonim, established 2 km south of the village site in 1942, is close to but not on village lands. Its name was changed to Chamadya in 1952 to resemble the Arabic name of al-Hamidiyya more closely.

Village Today

Aside from the ruins of the village's houses (which have been reduced to cement rubble), a cemetery, and a few wells, only thorns are found on the site. The lands in the vicinity are used by Israelis for agriculture and grazing.

Source

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

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