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Welcome To al-Mazar - المزار (אל-מזאר)

District of Haifa
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Occupation Date July 15, 1948
Distance From District 18.5 (km) South East of Haifa
Elevation 65 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #21 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Shoter (Police)
Attacking Units A special force drawn from the Golani, Carmeli, and Alexandroni brigades.
Acts of Terror In September 1948, UN investigators stated that 130 villagers were unaccounted for (see al-Tira & 'Ayn Ghazal for more details).
Refugees' Migration Routes The villagers were terrorized into fleeing eastward to Jinin (West Bank).
Exodus Cause Influence of fall of, or exoduce from, neighboring town
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Mazar inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 4,432
Jewish 856
Public 2,688
**Total 7,976
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 5 0
Irrigated & Plantation 473 113
Olive Groves 100 0
Planted W/ Cereal 3,750 743
Built up 39 0
Arable 4,228 856
Non-Arable 2,853 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 134
1931 2,160
1945 210
1948 244
Est. Refugees 1998 1,496
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 442
1948 442
Near By Townswhat's new
'Ayn Hawd
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'Atlit  ←
al-Mazar
→   Ijzim
            ↙
al-Sarafand
↓
Jaba'
Town's Name Through History al-Mazar may have been named after the many people who were killed and buried in its land while battling Crusades.
Water Supply al-Mazar had a spring on the southeast which provided it with its drinking water.
Archeological Sites al-Mazar contained archaeological artifacts such as pottery fragments, rock-hewn tombs, and cut stones.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 'En Karmel

Village Before Nakba

At 15.5 km distance from Haifa, the village stood on the lower western slopes of Mount Carmel, overlooking the narrow coastal plain and the Mediterranean Sea. About one-third of the village's land was on Mount Carmel, with the rest on the coastal plain. The coastal highway passed by its western edge, and the Crusader castle at 'Atlit lay only 2.5 km north of the village. The village's name, which is Arabic for 'shrine' or 'a place that one visits', was probably meant to commemorate the many people who were killed and buried there in the war against the Crusaders. The village layout resembled a square, and its Muslim inhabitants obtained their domestic water from a spring in the southeast. Al-Mazar's economy was based on agriculture and animal husbandry, with grain as the main crop. The site contained archeological artifacts such as pottery fragments, rock-hewn tombs, and cut stones.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Together with al-Tira and 'Ayn Hawd, al-Mazar was probably one of a few villages south of Haifa which eluded capture for around six weeks after the fall of the city in late April 1948. Historian Benny Morris argues that it was occupied in mid-July along with other villages in the immediate vicinity. This occurred in the course of a joint ground and naval operation launched during the Ten Days between the two truces of the war. The villagers may have been expelled, like those of al-Tira. However, that operation failed to occupy all the villages in the area; the Little Triangle (Ijzim, Jaba' and 'Ayn Ghazal) just south of al-Mazar held out for a few more days before succumbing to a massive Israeli assault carried out in violation of the second truce. Hence al-Mazar may also have withstood Israeli attacks until late July.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Rubble of stone houses is scattered over the site, which is overgrown with weeds, thorns, cactuses, and fig, pomegranate and mulberry trees. The site is also marked by segments of standing stone walls and the debris of the mosque, which stood until 1983.

Source

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