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Welcome To al-Shuna, Khirbat - خربة الشونة (א-סינדיאנה)

District of Haifa
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date March 15, 1948
Distance From District 32.5 (km) South 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 #42 on the map

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Attacking Units Possibly Haganah and lrgun forces
Exodus Cause Expulsion by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village has been mostly destroyed with the exception of few houses which have been renovated and turned into tourist facilities.
Ethnically Cleansing Village inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Population
Year Population*
1931 1,429
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses In (1931): 191 (includes the settlement of Zikhron Ya'aqov, under which the village is counted, and other localities)
Town's Name Through History Khirbat al-Shuna inhabitiants changed its name from just al-Shuna to Khirbat al-Shuna to differentiate it from the nearby Zionist settlement Binyamina, which used to be called al-Shuna al-Yahudiyya (The Jewish al-Shuna ).
Archeological Sites Khirbat al-Shuna contained khirbat Tel Mubarak (a small archaeological site).
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Binyamina and Nachalat Jabotinsky

Village Before Nakba

Khirbat al-Shuna was located at the southwestern foot of the Carmel Mountains, very near the coastal highway. The Haifa-Tel-Aviv railway passed along the western edge of the village. Its original name was al-Shuna. By the mid-1920s it had been engulfed by the Zionist settlement of Binyamina, founded in 1922 and originally known as 'Jewish al-Shuna' (al-Shuna al-yahudiyya). The Palestinian village was thereafter referred to as Khirbat al-Shuna. The village was classified as a hamlet in the Palestine Index Gazetteer. West of the village lay Tall Mubarak, a small archaeological site excavated by the Hebrew University in 1973-76. The fourteen strata of ruins were dated from the early second millenium B.C. through the Roman, Byzantine, and Crusader periods, that is, as late as the thirteenth century A.D. The top of this mound had been the cemetery for the nearby Palestinian village of Jisr al-Zarqa.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Located on a stretch of the coast regarded by Zionist leaders as the core of the future Jewish state, the village would have been vulnerable to 'clearing' operations undertaken in the first weeks of the war. In mid-March, April, and the first half of May 1948, Haganah and Irgun forces organized a series of strikes designed to expel all Palestinian villagers from the coastal area between Tel Aviv and the Jewish settlement of Zikhron Ya'aqov, south of Haifa. This area was considered by the Haganah command to be 'the core of the emergent Jewish state,' according to Israeli historian Benny Morris. The raids usually targeted one or two villages at a time, and often also succeeded in scaring neighboring communities into flight.

Al-'Abbasiyya (Jaffa sub-district) was the first village to be occupied by the Irgun during the implementation of this general Haganah plan. The village fell on 4 May and was held by Irgun forces for a total of five weeks, according to the History of the Haganah. By mid-May, the Haganah had fulfilled its aim of 'clearing' most Arab inhabitants from this part of the coastal plain.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land. The settlement of Binyamina, built in 1922 south of the site, has expanded so that some of its buildings are close to the original boundaries of the village land. It was combined with Nachalat Jabotinsky (named after Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of Revisionist Zionism) in 1946.

Village Today

The site is fenced in, and the few standing houses have been renovated and turned into tourist facilities. There are tall palm and eucalyptus trees and cactuses grow around the houses.

Source

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