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Welcome To Qannir - قنير (קניר)

District of Haifa
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Picture for Qannir Village - Palestine: : بيوت وحدائق داخل كيبوتس او مستعمرة رغافيم التي أقيمت على أراضي قنير ، وكان الكيبوتس بداية يقع على جزء من أراضي القرية السليبة أما الآن فقد ابتلغ أغلب أراضي القرية
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date April 25, 1948
Distance From District 35 (km) South of Haifa
Elevation 100 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
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Map Location See location #43 on the map

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Military Operation Possibly operation Coastal Clearing.
Defenders Arab Liberation Army headed by Fawzi al-Qawuqji.
Exodus Cause Fear of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting
Village Temains The village has been completely obliterated.
Ethnically Cleansing Qannir inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 10,826
Jewish 50
Public 455
**Total 11,331
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 460 20
Olive Groves 780 0
Planted W/ Cereal 5,760 30
Built up 22 0
Arable 6,220 50
Non-Arable 5,039 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
19th century 250
1922 400
1931 483
1945 750
1948 870
Est. Refugees 1998 5,343
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 92
1948 165
Near By Townswhat's new
al-Sindiyana
          ↖
Umm al-Shawf
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al-Butaymat
↗        
al-Sindiyana  ←
Qannir
→   'Ar'ara
            ↙
Giv'at Ada
↓
Kafr Qari'
Archeological Sites Qannir contained a number of khirbats, where the ruins of walls and cisterns were found, and it appears that the village itself was constructed over an earlier settlement too.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Regavim
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on slightly elevated terrain in the bilad al-rawha' (see Daliyat al-Rawha', Haifa sub-disctrict); the landscape sloped toward the northern segment of the coastal plain. A secondary road linked the village to the coastal highway. In the late nineteenth century, the village of Qannir, built of adobe bricks, was situated on a low hill. Its 250 (Muslim) residents cultivated 24 faddans (1 faddan = 100-250 dunums). A later account described stone houses built side by side. Qannir's economy was based on agriculture (primarily grain and vegetables) and cattle raising. In 1944/45 a total of 5,760 dunums was allocated to cereals; 460 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Its lands contained a number of khirbas, where the ruins of walls and cisterns were found. The village itself appears to have been constructed over an earlier, as yet unidentified, settlement

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Qannir was attacked repeatedly in early March 1948, in the first phase of the war. The Palestinian daily Filastin reported that the village was attacked on 5 March, adding that it was the third attack on the village in a week. According to the report, the attack was repulsed by the village contingent of the national guard; no mention was made of casualties.

After the fall of Haifa in late April, some of the surrounding villages were attacked or evacuated. Israeli historian Benny Morris states that the villagers of Qannir fled on 25 April, out of fear of an attack and under the influence of the offensive against Haifa. But Arab Liberation Army (ALA) records indicate that Qannir was still in Arab hands in early May, when it was briefly occupied by the Haganah. ALA commander Fawzi al-Qawuqji stated in one of his dispatches that at 4:00 a.m. on 8 May, an armored assault was launched against Qannir and neighboring Kafr Qar'. He added that the attack was 'resisted and repelled,' and that the enemy withdrew and both villages were recovered. It is not clear from either of these accounts when Haganah forces actually entered the village.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Regavim was established on village lands in 1949. Morris writes that this settlement was moved to Qannir after having been first established at the nearby village of al-Butaymat in July 1948.

Village Today

Stone rubble is strewn about the site, which is covered with thorns, fig trees, and cactus. Part of the adjacent land is used by the Israelis as pasture and the other part is cultivated.

Source

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