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District of Haifa
Ethnically cleansed days ago |
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Occupation Date | May 12, 1948 | ||||||||||||||
Distance From District | 29.5 (km) South of Haifa | ||||||||||||||
Elevation | 125 (meters) | ||||||||||||||
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details![]() |
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Map Location | See location #39 on the map View from satellite |
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Military Operation | Operation Coastal Clearing | ||||||||||||||
Attacking Units | Possibly units from the Haganah and the Irgun terror gang. | ||||||||||||||
Defenders | Local Palestinian militia and Arab Liberation Army volunteers. | ||||||||||||||
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 obliterated with the exception of its shrine. | ||||||||||||||
Ethnically Cleansing |
Soon after occupation, IZL gangs searched the Palestinian Arab refugees and found a pistol. When their demand to find out who owned the pistol was fruitless, the commander at the seen execute seven male refugees.(Benny Morris p. 117-118) |
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Pre-Nakba Land Ownership |
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps |
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Land Usage As of 1945 |
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Places of Warship | One mosque | ||||||||||||||
Shrines / Maqams | A shrine for a local sage known by al-Shaykh 'Abd Allah (still standing). | ||||||||||||||
Nearby Wadies & Rivers | Umm al-Shawf was situated on the sloping section of Wadi al-Marah. | ||||||||||||||
Water Supply | Umm al-Shawf had two springs in its north side which supplied it with its drinking water needs. | ||||||||||||||
Exculsive Jewish Colonies Who Usurped Village Lands |
Giv'at Nili | ||||||||||||||
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Village Before NakbaThe village stood on the southern, gently sloping section of Wadi al-Marah in the bilad al-rawha' (see Daliyat al-Rawha', Haifa sub-disctrict) and faced north. It was linked by a number of secondary roads to the coastal highway and the Haifa-Jenin highway, as well as to the neighboring villages. In the late nineteenth century, Umm al-Shawf was a small village that extended from the southeast to the northwest. Two springs north of the village supplied it with water. Its estimated 150 residents, who were Muslims, cultivated 21 faddans (1 faddan = 100-250 dunums). The houses were made of stone with either mud or cement. The village had a mosque and a shrine for a local sage, Shaykh Abd Allah. The village economy was based on agriculture and animal husbandry; the most important crops were grain and olives. In 1944/45 a total of 6,175 dunums was allocated to cereals; 107 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 32 dunums were used for growing olives.Zionists Colonies on Village LandsGiv'at Nili, founded in 1953, is on village lands south of the site.Village TodayPiles of stone debris from the houses are scattered about the site, which is overgrown with cactuses, thorns, and bushes. The shrine of Shaykh Abd Allah still stands.SourceDr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains. |
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Related Maps | Town Lands' Demarcation Maps خرائط للقضاء توضح حدود القرى والاودية Town's map on MapQuest View from satellite Help us map this town at WikiMapia |
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More Information | في كتاب كي لا ننسى في كتاب بلادنا فلسطين المزيد من موقع هوية |
Display Name | Clan/Hamolah | Country of Residence |
JEHAD FRAIJ | - | IRBID, JORDAN |
معتز فريج | فريج | - |
أسيد قاسم | - | فلسطين, فلسطين |
hoji | - | - |
مجد شناعه | شناعة | فلسطين, قباطيه |
أبو شكري | - | ال |
مسعود الصباح | صباح | الزرقاء, الزرقاء |
علي فؤاد صباح | صباح | - |
ابن حيفا حر | - | - |
ابو ابراهيم | شناعة | قباطية, قباطية |
مراد صبّاح | صبّاح | الرياض, المملكة العربية السعودية |
احمد شناعة | شناعة | - |
ابراهيم معين كامل بشر | بشر | الاردن, ام الزينات |
Mahmoud Sabbah | Sabbah | - |
Hala Sabbah | Sabbah | england - UK |
مجدي صباح | - | السعودية |
MUSTAFA FRAIJ | - | - |
نشأت قاسم | قاسم | فلسطين, قفين |
بهاء الدين نايف صباح | صبـاح | الرصيفة, الاردن |
hazem bahjat | shanah | rusaifa, jordan |
dana sabbah | - | الاردن, اربد |
أبو يحيى | شناعة | الرياض, السعودية |
صباح | SABBAH | - |
Abdul raheem Fraij | Fraij | Jeddah - S. A |
محمد صباح | sabbah | saudi arabia |
abosaeed | sabbah | - |
أبوجهاد | صباح | الرصيفة |
Yousuf Mohammad Shana ah | - | UAE, Jordan-irbid |
Haitham Sabbah | - | - |
haitham sabbah | Sabbah | - |
mohamed sabbah | sabbah | jordan, jordan |
د. محمود مأمون الصباح | yes | Jordan, palestine |
esamsabah | sabbah | palestine, palestine |
Zakaria Sabbah | Sabbah | Jordan, Jordan |
Ahmed AL-Ahmed | Yacoub Al-Ahmad | Madrid, Spain |