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Welcome To Daliyat al-Rawha' - دالية الروحة (דאלית א-רוחא)

District of Haifa
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Picture for Daliyat al-Rawha' Village - Palestine: : Village cemetery and destroyed house, spring 2023 / زيارة لمقبرة دالية الروحة وتظهر انقض البيوت المدمرة - خريف 2023 #4
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date March 1, 1948
Distance From District 24.5 (km) South East of Haifa
Elevation 200 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #27 on the map

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Military Operation Mishmar Ha'emek Battle
Attacking Units Some unknown troops from the Haganah.
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains In mid-June 1948, the village has been completely obliterated, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing Daliyat al-Rawha' inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 178
Jewish 9,614
Public 216
**Total 10,008
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 98 0
Planted W/ Cereal 56 9,595
Built up 24 19
Arable 154 9,595
Non-Arable 216 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 135
1931 163
1945 600 (320 Jewish)
1948 325 (320 Jewish)
Est. Refugees 1998 1,995
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 46
1948 91
Near By Townswhat's new
Ijzim
          ↖
Umm al-Zinat
↑
(N)
al-Rihaniyya
↗        
Sabbarin  ←
Daliyat al-Rawha'
→   Abu Shusha
            ↙
Khubbayza
↓
al-Kafrayn
Archeological Sites Daliyat al-Rawha' had a Khirba located northwest of its center.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Ramot Menashe & Daliyya
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a small hill between two shallow wadis that ran north to south. It was linked by a secondary road to a highway that descended in a southwesterly direction to the Mediterranean and led northeast to the plain of Marj ibn Amir. The area extending from Daliyat al-Rawha' (the 'fragrant vine') to the village of Umm al-Fahm to the east was called the bilad al-rawha' (the 'fragrant country'). Al-Maqrizi (d. 1441) wrote that the Mamluk sultan Qalawun stayed in Daliyat al-Rawha' in A.D. 1281 while campaigning against the Crusaders, and that the two sides signed a temporary peace treaty there. In the late nineteenth century the authors of the Survey of Western Palestine saw Daliyat al-Rawha'. They said that it was situated on the west side of a watershed with a good spring on the south. The village's sixty residents cultivated ten faddans (1 faddan = 100-250 dunums).

The village had a rectangular outline that extended from east to west; its houses were made of stone with either mud or cement mortar, and were clustered together. The residents of Daliyat al-Rawha' were Muslims. They earned their livelihood from agriculture and animal husbandry and drew water from the many springs in the area. In 1944/45 they allocated a total of 56 dunums to cereals; another 98 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. To the northwest of the village was a khirba.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The villagers were evicted from Daliyat al-Rawha' as early as February 1948, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris, who states that the village lands had already been bought by Zionist organizations before 1948 and that the villagers were living as tenant farmers. In the beginning of 1948 discussion had already begun within the Zionist establishment regarding what should be done with such communities. A director of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), Yosef Weitz, held a meeting of JNF officials in January 1948 to decide the fate of Daliyat al-Rawha' and another village. Later, Weitz wrote in his diary: 'Is it not now the time to be rid of them? Why continue to keep in our midst these thorns at a time when they pose a danger to us? Our people are weighing up .' Morris reports that in the following month (February), Weitz used his contacts with local Haganah units and Haganah intelligence officers to have tenants evicted from several villages, among them Daliyat al-Rawha'.

While the villagers may have been expelled in February, a story in the New York Times stated that the village was actually occupied on 14 April. That transpired in the course of the battle around the settlement of Mishmar ha-Emeq (see Abu Shusha, Haifa District), bringing to ten the number of villages seized in an arc south of the settlement. There is indirect confirmation of its occupation in Morris' book; he states that in the same month, JNF official Weitz met with top Haganah commanders, who promised to provide manpower and equipment to help set up a settlement on the village site. Before a settlement was established, however, the village was destroyed. In mid-June 1948, Israeli prime minister Ben-Gurion wrote in his diary that the destruction of the village was complete, almost certainly on the basis of a progress report from Weitz.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Morris states that the JNF established the settlement of Ramot Menashe on the lands of the village some five months after the eviction of its population and three and a half months after its occupation, on 31 July 1948; this settlement is located between Daliyat al-Rawha' and the nearby Sabbarin. Ramot Menashe is not, however, on the lands of Daliyat al-Rawha' but actually stands on lands that belonged to Sabbarin. Daliyya, established in 1939, is south of the village site on land that originally belonged to the village.

Village Today

The stone rubble of houses, covered with dirt, bushes, and thorny shrubs, is visible. Clusters of cactus cover a large portion of the site. There are a few olive, chinaberry, and poplar trees scattered about the site, and at the southern edge one can see a large eucalyptus tree. A few meters to the north of this tree there are stones strewn among the cactus plants these most likely are the remains of the village cemetery. At the southern edge of the site, in the wadi, are the walls of a house with stone floors.

Source

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