Welcome To Hulayqat - حليقات (חוליקאת)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

May 12, 1948

Distance From District

20.5 (km) North East of Gaza

Elevation

100 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #37 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Operation Barak

Attacking Units

Giv'ati Brigade

Defenders

Egyptian Army

Exodus Cause

Influence of fall of, or exoduce from, neighboring town

Village Temains

The village was completely defaced.

Ethnically Cleansing

Hulayqat inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	6,902
Jewish	0
Public	161
**Total	7,063

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	115
Planted W/ Cereal	6,636
Built up	18
Arable	6,751
Non-Arable	294

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1922	251
1931	285
1945	420
1948	487
Est. Refugees 1998	2,992

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	61
1948	104

Near By Towns

Bayt Tima ↖	Kawkaba ↑ (N)	'Iraq Suwaydan ↗
Bayt Jirja ←	Hulayqat	→ Beersheba Bedouins
↙ Simsim	↓ Burayr	↘ Beersheba Bedouins

Archeological Sites

Hulayqat had many khirbats which contained cisterns, a pool, and fragments of marble and pottery

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

No settlements on village lands

Village Before Nakba

The village was situated in an area of rolling hills on the coastal plain. It stood on the east bank of a wadi, immediately to the west of the Gaza–Julis highway, which ran parallel to the main coastal highway. Secondary roads linked it to a number of surrounding villages. In the late nineteenth century, Hulayqat was a small village on a gentle slope, flanked by a high sandy hill and a garden to the west. The village, which expanded toward the end of the Mandate, was rectangular in shape, with the long side of the rectangle extending along the highway. Its adobe houses stood close together and were interspersed with some small shops. The villagers were Muslims, and they obtained their domestic water from two wells inside the village. They worked mainly in rainfed agriculture, growing grain and fruit. Fruit cultivation was concentrated in the northwestern lands. In 1944/45 a total of 6,636 dunums was allotted to cereals; 115 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. In addition to agriculture, people worked with the British-Iraq Petroleum Company after it began exploring the region for oil. Close to Hulayqat lay several khirbas that contained cisterns, a pool, and fragments of marble and pottery.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The History of the Haganah states that when the Palmach's Negev Brigade destroyed the village of Burayr, 'the peasants from the adjacent villages of Huleiqat and Kawkaba began to flee in the direction of the Hebron hills.' This occurred on 13 May 1948, during Operation Barak . The Palmach established a position in the village. But Egyptian writer Muhammad Abd al-Mun'im states that Hulayqat was recaptured by Egyptian forces on 8 July, just before the first truce of the war expired. Egyptian armored vehicles took the village in a surprise attack from the north and held onto it until the second truce. Abd al-Mun'im states that the operation was in response to encroachment by Zionist forces in the area.

Some villagers apparently remained throughout the second truce, when heavy fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces led to another exodus. Hulayqat was reoccupied on 19–20 October, the History of the War of Independence relates, in a two-pronged attack from Bayt Tima in the northwest and Kawkaba in the north. The battle between the Giv'ati Brigade and Egyptian forces involved combat at close quarters in some places. Israeli historian Benny Morris insists: 'There had been no expulsions; the locals had simply fled in face of the approaching hostilities.' On 20 October, the New York Times correspondent wrote that Hulayqat, 'the most southerly point held by the Egyptians in the desert proper, fell last night after the heaviest battle of the campaign….' The village was defended by 600 Egyptian regulars; around 100 of them were killed and a similar number taken prisoner, according to the Times. Egyptian writer Abd al-Mun'im adds that with the occupation of Hulayqat, 'the enemy was able to open a road to his southern settlements and became a dangerous threat to our forces.'

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands.

Village Today

The site is partially forested. There are sycamore and Christ's-thorn trees and cactuses growing on the site. One of the old roads has been covered by a modern street.

Source

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

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Display Name	Clan/Hamolah	Country of Residence
حقي هو عودتي	-	فلسطين المحتلة, فلسطين المحتلة
محمود أحمد مصطفى رزق صالح	صالح	Palestin - Gaza - Rafah, حليقات
احمد87	-	غزة, حليقات
أحمد مصطفى رزق صالح	رزق	الشابورة.Rafa7
عبد الحميد خليل	صالح	طرابلس, ليبيا
فايز سليم صالح	صالح	الرياض, السعودية
محمود فايز صالح	صالح	الرياض, السعودية
علاء فايز صالح	حليقات	الشابورة, فلسطين
Usama Saleh	-	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
وسام	خليل	دمشق
ABU HUSAM	SALAH	-
محمد صالح	-	غزة, فلسطين
Ayman abdallah khaleel	Khaleel	Amman, Jordan

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