Welcome To Abu Zurayq - ابو زريق (אבו זריק)

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Statistic & Fact

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Occupation Date

April 12, 1948

Distance From District

24 (km) South East of Haifa

Elevation

100 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #24 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

The battle for Mishmar ha-'Emeq

Attacking Units

A combination from the Palmach 1st Battalion, Carmeli and Alexandroni Brigades

Defenders

Arab Liberation Army volunteers and some local Palestinian militia

Acts of Terror

Massacre occured by Zionist troops against the town's inhabitants.

Exodus Cause

Military assault by Zionist troops

Village Temains

The village has been completely defaced on April 15th 1948.

Ethnically Cleansing

Upon occupation, 15 adult males and some 200 women and children from Abu Zurayq inhabitants were taken captives. The women and children were sent towards Jinin.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	4,401
Jewish	0
Public	2,092
**Total	6,493

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves	1
Irrigated & Plantation	282
Olive Groves	100
Planted W/ Cereal	4,092
Arable	4,375
Non-Arable	2,118

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1945	550
1948	638
Est. Refugees 1998	3,918

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Near By Towns

Umm al-Zinat ↖	Qira ↑ (N)
al-Rihaniyya ←	Abu Zurayq	→ Zionist Colonies
↙ Daliyat al-Rawha'	↓ Abu Shusha

Schools

Abu Zurayq had an elementary school for boys.

Places of Warship

One mosque

Nearby Wadies & Rivers

The village was situated near Wadi Abu Zurayq

Water Supply

Water supplies were taken from a number of sources, among them Wadi Abu Zurayq, a nearby spring and a well.

Archeological Sites

Abu Zurayq contained rich sequence of Paleolithic stone tools have been found and the remains of an isolated Roman farmhouse

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

No settlements on village lands

Village Before Nakba

The village was located in the northern foothills of a region known as the bilad al-rawha', the 'fragrant country' (see Daliyat al-Rawha', Haifa sub-district), which overlooked the plain of Marj ibn Amir. Some of the houses were also built on a small hill next to the Haifa-Jenin highway. Its name probably referred to the Abu Zurayq Bedouin, who settled there. The people of Abu Zurayq were Muslim. Their houses, scattered at some distance from one another, were built of stone and either mud or cement; the roofs were made of concrete or, in some cases, mud, straw, and wood. The village had a mosque and a boys' elementary school and drew its water from a number of sources, among them Wadi Abu Zurayq, a spring, and a well.

Abu Zurayq's economy was based on agriculture and animal husbandry. Grain was the main crop, although vegetables were also grown, using irrigation. In 1942/43, 100 dunums were occupied by olive trees. Fruit trees were tended as well, and one dunum was planted with orange trees. In 1944/45 a total of 4,092 dunums were allotted to cereals; 282 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Next to the village was a tell that dated mainly to the Bronze and Iron ages, although it contained some materials that belonged to the early Islamic period. On the terraced ground above the tell (and below the village), a rich sequence of Paleolithic stone tools have been found. Northwest of Ayn Abu Zurayq were the remains of an isolated Roman farmhouse.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Palmach units gained control of the village on 12 April 1948, after having seized it briefly three days earlier. According to the New York Times, this occurred when the Haganah broke a two-day truce to emerge from the settlement of Mishmar ha-Emeq and overrun a cluster of neighboring villages. The battle over Mishmar ha-Emeq had erupted on 4 April. On entering Abu Zurayq, the Palmach attackers took fifteen adult males captive, along with some 200 women and children, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris. No mention is made of the fate of the men, but the women and children were expelled towards Jenin. The Palestinian newspaper Filastin provides a more graphic account. The paper's correspondent wrote that as dawn broke, on the morning after the Zionist troops had occupied the village, a Haganah unit stationed to the north came across a number of villagers lying face down in the village fields. The Zionist forces surrounded these people-old men, women, and children-and opened fire, killing two women and four children, and taking a group of thirty people captive. Later, an Arab force counterattacked, liberating the villagers and taking them to safety in Jenin.

Morris quotes Israeli sources as saying that some of Abu Zurayq's houses were blown up on the night of occupation, adding that the demolition of the village was completed by 15 April. This is confirmed by the New York Times, which quotes the British authorities as saying on 16 April that Haganah engineers had blown up the houses left standing in the village. The Palestinian daily Filastin states that thirty houses were blown up in the course of capturing the village, five of which were still occupied.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands. The settlement of ha-Zore'a, built in 1936, is close by, to the north.

Village Today

The site is overgrown with cactus plants and fig and olive trees. The level lands in the vicinity are used for agriculture, while the uneven lands in the hills serve as pasture.

Source

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

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