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Welcome To Kudna - كدنة (כידנא)

District of Hebron
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date October 22, 1948
Distance From District 25 (km) Northwest of Hebron
Elevation 250 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #11 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Yo'av (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)
Attacking Units Giva'ti Brigade
Defenders Egyptian Muslim Brotherhoods, local Palestinian militias and some Arab Liberation Army volunteers
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village has been completely obliterated and defaced.
Ethnically Cleansing Kudna inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 11,607
Jewish 0
Public 4,137
**Total 15,744
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 825
Olive Groves 670
Planted W/ Cereal 6,505
Built up 15
Arable 7,330
Non-Arable 8,399
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 281
1931 353
1945 450
1948 522
Est. Refugees 1998 3,206
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 75
1948 110
Near By Townswhat's new
Thikrin
          ↖
Dayr al-Dubban
↑
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'Ajjur
↗        
Zayta  ←
Kudna
→   Umm Burj, Khirbat
↓
Bayt Jibrin
↘           
Dayr Nakhkhas
Town's Name Through History Kudna was known to the Crusades by Kidna.
Archeological Sites Kudna contains remnants of a Crusade fort, the foundations of buildings, previously inhabited caves, cisterns, and about a dozen khirbas lay in the village vicinity.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Beyt Nir
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Village Before Nakba

The village was located on the lower slopes of the Hebron Mountains. A secondary road linked it to Bayt Jibrin (4 km due south) and hence to Hebron, Bethlehem, and al-Faluja similar roads and dirt paths connected it to the area's villages. Kudna was known to the Crusaders as Kidna. In the late nineteenth century, Kudna was a small village situated on a low hill and surrounded by olive trees. The walls of a Crusader castle rose from the middle of the village. The people of Kudna were Muslims who built their houses along the track from Bayt Jibrin to Dayr al-Dubban, which ran through the village in a north-south direction and constituted its main street. During the Mandate new housing was constructed northward along this street.

The community obtained its drinking water from a well on the eastern edge of the village. Its agricultural land, the bulk of which was located on the west side, was planted in grain, vegetables, and fruits such as figs and olives. Agriculture was rainfed. In 1944/45 a total of 6,505 dunums was allocated to cereals 825 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. The uncultivated land in the vicinity, with its shrubs and wild grasses, served as grazing grounds for the goats and sheep that were raised by the villagers. An archaeological site in Kudna contained remnants of a fort, the foundations of buildings, previously inhabited caves, and cisterns. About half a dozen khirbas lay in the vicinity.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Kudna was occupied in the same circumstances as Ajjur, during Operation Yoav, by the Israeli army's Giv'ati Brigade. Different sources agree that the village fell on 22-23 October 1948. Like other villages overrun during the operation, all of the remaining residents of Kudna were expelled, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Beyt Nir, established in 1955, is to the west of the site on village lands. An earlier settlement, Paggit, may have been built on village land in 1952 but apparently did not prosper.

Village Today

The houses have been reduced to levelled debris hidden beneath an overgrowth of wild vegetation. One can see the stones that served as fences for home gardens. Cactuses and carob, fig, and olive trees grow on the site. Cypress trees grow to the south of the site. The whole area is fenced in and used by Israeli farmers as pasture.

Source

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