Welcome To al-Sakhina - الساخنه (א-סאח'נה)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

May 12, 1948

Distance From District

5 (km) West of Baysan

Elevation

-95 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #18 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Operation Gideon

Attacking Units

Golani Brigade

Village Temains

al-Sakhina was completely destroyed and defaced.

Ethnically Cleansing

al-Sakhina inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	1,088
Jewish	4,985
Public	327
**Total	6,400

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	828	3,761
Planted W/ Cereal	307	1,164
Built up	0	60
Arable	1,135	4,925
Non-Arable	280	0

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1931	374
1945	820 (290 Jewish)
1948	615 (290 Jewish)
Est. Refugees 1998	3,776

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	78
1948	128

Near By Towns

	al-Murassas ↑ (N)
Qumya ←	al-Sakhina	→ Baysan
↙ Faqqu'a	↓ al-Jawfa, Khirbat

Nearby Wadies & Rivers

The Jalud River crosses village lands on its way to the Jordan River.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Nir David & Tel' Amal.

Village Before Nakba

The village was located in the middle of a plain, bordered by three tells: Tall al-Dahra al-Kabir ("the tell of the big mountain peak"), in the north, and Tall al-Dahra al-Saghir ("the tell of the small mountain peak"), in the south, and Tall 'Amal, also in the south. The al-Faqqu'a Mountains (also known as the Jilbu' Hills) stretched south of the village. The Jalud River crossed the village lands on its way to the Jordan. The village was also intersected by a highway leading to Baysan, and was linked via a secondary road to the nearby village of al-Murassas. Numerous springs were to be found in the area, and the inhabitants, all of whom were Muslims, worked mainly in agriculture. Most of their land was devoted to the cultivation of vegetables (grown along the southern bank of the Jalud River), grapes and fruit trees; date palms were tended in the eastern lands. In 1944/45 a total of 260 dunums was allocated to cereals; 828 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. A forest occupied a large area to the northwest.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

On 12 May 1948, a couple of neighboring villages were occupied and al-Sakhina may have fallen at the same time. That was the same day on which the town of Baysan was taken by the Golani Brigade, in a sweep through the entire Baysan Valley known as Operation Gideon.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Nir David , established in 1936 under the name Tel 'Amal , is just south of the village site, on lands that traditionally belonged to al-Sakhina.

Village Today

No physical evidence remains by which the site may be identified, as the entire area has been plowed and turned into agricultural fields. The village lands are cultivated by the Nir David settlement.

Source

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

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