Welcome To al-Murassas - المرصص (אל-מרצץ)

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Occupation Date

May 16, 1948

Distance From District

7 (km) North of Baysan

Elevation

100 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #13 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Operation Gideon

Attacking Units

Golani Brigades

Exodus Cause

Influence of fall of, or exoduce from, neighboring town

Village Temains

The village was completely defaced.

Ethnically Cleansing

al-Murassas inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	9,936
Jewish	3,002
Public	1,539
**Total	14,477

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	16	0
Planted W/ Cereal	9,894	3,002
Built up	26	0
Arable	9,910	3,002
Non-Arable	1,539	0

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1922	312
1931	381
1945	460
1948	534
Est. Refugees 1998	3,277

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	89
1948	124

Near By Towns

Yubla ↖	Kafra ↑ (N)	Jabbul ↗
	al-Murassas	→ al-Hamidiyya
	↓ al-Sakhina	↘ Baysan

Nearby Wadies & Rivers

al-Murassas bordered Wadi al-'Ashsha to the North and Wadi Jalud to the south.

Archeological Sites

The village contains an ancient pool known by al-Fakht.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

No Israeli settlements on village lands.

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a low ridge that jutted up between Wadi al-'Ashsha (to the north) and Wadi Jalud (to the south). It overlooked the terrain to the south, which gradually descended to Wadi Jalud. A secondary road connected it to a highway running between Baysan and the village of Afula, to the northwest, which ultimately led to Haifa, on the coast. Other secondary roads linked it to several neighboring villages. A few springs west of the village, together with wells that collected rain water, satisfied the water needs of the villagers. In 1596 al-Murassas was a farm that paid taxes to the Ottoman government. The Swiss traveler Burckhardt, who visited the area in the early nineteenth century, mentioned it but did not provide any description.

In the late nineteenth century, al-Murassas was a small village, situated on high ground and built of adobe bricks, surrounded by farmland. A small forest lay to the west of the village site. The village plan was circular in shape, with the houses concentrated around the crossroads at the village center. A few houses were also built on the eastern heights of the village. Of the 460 people living in al-Murassas, 450 were Muslims and 10 were Christians. The villagers worked in agriculture, which was based on grain and vegetables, and planted the farmlands to the west and north of the village. In 1944/45 a total of 9,894 dunums was allocated to cereals; 16 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. An ancient pool in the southern part of the village, called al-Fakht, contained a cistern

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands. Sde Nachum , founded in 1937 some 3 km to the south of the site, was built on the lands of the town of Baysan. Beyt ha-Shitta , established in 1935 on land purchased from the village of Shatta, is 4 km west-southwest of the site.

Village Today

The village site is part of an agricultural area that is exploited by the settlements of Sde Nachum and Beyt ha-Shitta. The only structures in the area are telephone poles and a small shed. A small tell on the site, surrounded by plowed fields, is littered with rubble.

Source

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

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