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Welcome To Barqusya - بركوسيا (ברקוסיא)

District of Hebron
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date July 9, 1948
Distance From District 31 (km) Northwest of Hebron
Elevation 175 (meters)
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Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
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Map Location See location #6 on the map

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Military Operation Operation An-Far
Attacking Units Egyptian Muslim Brotherhoods, local Palestinian militias and some 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 Barqusya was completely obliterated and defaced.
Ethnically Cleansing Barqusya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 3,214
Jewish 0
Public 2
**Total 3,216
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 28
Planted W/ Cereal 2,460
Built up 31
Arable 2,488
Non-Arable 697
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 158
1931 258
1945 330
1948 383
Est. Refugees 1998 2,351
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 53
1948 78
Near By Townswhat's new
Tall al-Turmus
          ↖
Bi'lin
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Tall al-Safi
↗        
Barqusya
→   Dayr al-Dubban
            ↙
Summil
↓
Zayta
↘           
Thikrin
Schools Barqusya's children used to attend school in the nearby village of Tall al-Safi, Hebron.
Places of Warship One small mosque
Water Supply The village has one artesian well which was drilled in the late 19th century.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 No Israeli settlements on village lands.
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a hill that sloped toward the northwest in the western foothills of the Hebron Mountains. A dirt path that turned into a secondary road at the village of Summayl, to the southwest, linked the village to the highway between the city of al-Majdal (on the coast) and Hebron. In the late nineteenth century, Barqusya, a moderate-sized village, had a roughly pentagonal outline, its houses built of stone and mud.

During the first decades of this century construction grew at a slow pace, most of the expansion taking place northward along the road to the village of Bi'lin, to the northwest. But during the final years of the Mandate, one of the village's two hama'il (clans, sing. hamula) moved about 1 km to the south, and the outline of the village was also stretched southward. The village had a handful of small shops and a small mosque. The children attended school in the village of Tall aI-Safi, to the northwest. To the west of the village was a well that had supplied the village with drinking water since the late nineteenth century. Agriculture, which represented the mainstay of the economy, was rainfed. The residents cultivated chiefly grain but also tended fruit trees. In 1944/45 a total of 2,460 dunums was allocated to cereals 28 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. In addition to crop cultivation, the villagers raised sheep and goats.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Barqusya was captured during the attacks carried out in the course of Operation An-Far. This probably occurred on 9-10 July 1948, during the period that separated the two truces.

By the following month, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) had already planned a settlement for the site. On 20 August 1948, a JNF plan was submitted to the Israeli authorities showing two settlements on the land of Barqusya and nearby Summayl. The two villages were to be replaced by settlements named Segula and Nachala, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no settlements on village lands. The settlements of Segula and Nachala are close by, to the southwest they are on the lands of Summayl, across the boundary between the Hebron and Gaza sub-districts.

Village Today

No houses remain. Some graves can be seen amidst foxtail and khubbayza (mallow) plants. One of the graves has an inscribed tombstone resting on the superstructure. There are also the remnants of a well. Cactuses and a variety of trees, including palms, grow on the site. The site serves as grazing grounds for the sheep of Israeli farmers who also grow grapes and other fruits.

Source

Dr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains.
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Display Name Clan/Hamolah Country of Residence
شاكر احمد شاكر ابراهيم مصلح - الرمثا , الرمثا
جمال مسلم القواسمي القواسمي عمان, الاردن
RAMY QWASMI - RAMMALAH
احمد خشان - -
زكري القواسمي القواسمي -
معتز سالم خشان -
fuad musllam musllam Irbid, jordan
عبدالمنعم حسن علي فخد علي سالم - -
د- القواسمي ابو عمر القواسمي south africa
M.ALQwasmah khashan dammam, jordan
Abufadda - عجور
haytham qawasmeh - -
احمد رياض محمود خشان القواسمه jordan, jordan
Wafa2oo Naser Jordan
ابراهيم جميل خشان خشان عمان, الاردن
Mutaz_q Qawasmi -
rami Qawasmeh جبرين الاردن, الاردن
Mohammad Ayed Khashan - ABU DHABI, UAE
اسامه البطاط - ال
mohamad qwasmi alqwasmi Ramtha
maea khashan - amman, jordan
نايف عوني نايف عبد الله اربد
belal qawasmi irbed
KAMAL ABUOMAR AbuOmar Amman, Jordan
alqawasmi alqawasmi (abuomar) abudhabi, uae
abu omar alqawasmi jordan, jordan
SAMI MUSLEH - -
Fuad Qawasmi Qawasmi Irbid, Jordan
shaker - -
Hani Khashan - -
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Khaled Muslllam Alqawasmi ramtha, jordan
riad khashan khashan amman, jordan
Saud Khashan khashan -
azmi mahmoud ahmad alhaj khshan khshan alqwasmeh Amman, Jordan
yousef nassar - -
Mahmoud Azmi Mahmoud Khashan Khashan Riyadh, Saudia Arabia
Alali alali jordan, 0962
Anwar Mohammad Al-Qawasmi abdallah Irbid, Jordan
Jamal AL-Qawasmi Al-Qawasmi Jordan
mohammad qawasmi - -
ahmed qawasmi - -
ibrahim qawasmi - -
mohammad qawasmi - -
fuad qawasmi qawasmi -
RAED KHASHAN khashan -
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