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Welcome To Wa'arat al-Sarris - وعرة السريس (וערת א-סריס)

District of Haifa
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Occupation Date April 16, 1948
Distance From District 11 (km) East of Haifa
Elevation 25 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #1 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Bi'ur Chametz
Defenders Arab Liberation Army
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing Wa'arat al-Sarris inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Population
Year Population*
1931 1,197
1945 190
1948 220
Est. Refugees 1998 1,354
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses In (1931): 234 (includes Khirbat Sa'sa' and 8 other villages)
Near By Townswhat's new
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Mediterranean  
   Shafa Amr
           
Balad al-Shaykh
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
Arab township of Shafa 'Amr & Qiryat Atta.

Village Before Nakba

Cactuses and fig trees can be found scattered about the site. There are a number of partially collapsed stone walls, one with a large arched opening. The surrounding lands are used as a grazing area.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

At midnight on 3 February 1948, Zionist forces attempting to infiltrate the neighboring village of Iksal were stopped near Wa'arat aI-Sarris after an engagement lasting for over an hour. The Palestinian newspaper Filastin provides an account of the battle but does not give any casualty figures. The newspaper states that the attack was the second to be directed against Iksal (a village that is still inhabited by Palestinians today) after fighting had erupted in late 1947.

Because Wa'arat aI-Sarris was located close to the villages of Hawsha and Khirbat al-Kasayir, it may have been occupied or evacuated as a result of the attack on those two villages on 16 April 1948. But if residents remained after that attack, they probably panicked after the fall of Haifa a week later, on 22 April, and in the face of the Haganah's subsequent push to occupy the vicinity.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The original village landholdings have been combined with the lands belonging to the Arab town of Shafa Amr. The settlement of Qiryat Atta, founded in 1925, has expanded so that some of its buildings occupy the village site.

Village Today

The neighborhood of Amidar Aleph, a part of the Jewish settlement of Qiryat Ata, occupies the site. Four partly demolished houses remain; six other houses are being used by Jewish families. Oak, cypress, and fig trees, as well as cacti, grow on the site

Source

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

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