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Welcome To al-Safiriyya - السافرية (א-סאפריה)

District of Jaffa
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Occupation Date May 20, 1948
Distance From District 11 (km) East of Jaffa
Elevation 25 (meters)
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Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
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Pre-Nakba Aerial View
Map Location See location #23 on the map

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Military Operation Possibly Operation Chametz
Attacking Units Either Irgun Zvai Leumi (IZL) or Alexandroni Brigade
Defenders Local militia & Arab Liberation Army
Exodus Cause Expulsion by Zionist troops
Village Temains On the 13th of September 1948, the village was mostly destroyed with the exception of few houses and the two village schools.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Safiriyya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 10,545
Jewish 1,722
Public 575
**Total 12,842
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 3,539 1,412
Irrigated & Plantation 3,708 24
Olive Groves 25 0
Planted W/ Cereal 3,032 286
Built up 95 0
Arable 10,279 1,722
Non-Arable 746 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 292
1922 1,306
1931 2,040
1945 3,070
1948 3,561
Est. Refugees 1998 21,870
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 489
1948 853
Near By Townswhat's new
al-Khayriyya
         
Saqiya

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Kafr 'Ana
       
Bayt Dajan  
   al-Lydd Airport
           
Zionist Colonies
           
al-Lydd
Town's Name Through History al-Safiriyya was known to the Byzantines by Sapharea, and the Crusades called it Saphyria.
Schools al-Safiriyya had two elementary schools, one for boys founded in 1920 which had an enrollment of 348 boys in 1945, and another school was for girls founded in 1945 with an initial enrollment of 45 girls, both schools remain standing.
Archeological Sites al-Safiriyya contains several khirbats including Khirbat Subtara.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
Tzafriyya, Kefar Chabad, Achi'ezer, and the suburbs of Ri'shon le-Tziyyon.
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on flat terrain on the central coastal plain, 11 km southeast of Jaffa. It was lonked by a secondary road to a highway leading to Jaffa and al-Ramla, among other urban centers.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

A wire service report stated that Israeli forces took al-Safiriyya on 20 May 1948. The United Press dispatch said that the occupation of the villagecoincided with attacks by Irgun Zwai Leumi (IZL) against the city of al-Ramla to the south. However, the Palestinian historian 'Arif al-'Arif relates that it was occupied almost a month earlier, at the same time as nearby Yazur and Bayt Dajan, which were attacked during Operation Chametz in preparation for the encirclement of Jaffa and its eventual occupation. If it was captured at that time, the attacking units were probably from the Alexandroni Brigade.
In either case, the village was certainly under Israeli control by September 1948, for on 13 September, Prime Minister Ben Gurion asked the Israeli's cabinet to destroy al-Safiriyya (together with thirteen nearby villages). Israeli historian Benny Morris writes that David Ben-Gurion was careful to make the request in the name of the commanding officer of the central front and not in his own name. The request was granted.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Four settlements are now on village lands: Tzafriyya and Kefar Chabad, both build in 1949, Achi'ezer, founded un 1950, and Tochelet, founded in 1951. The settlement of Shafrir, established in 1949, has been absorbed by these and by the suburbs of Rishon le-Tziyyon.

Village Today

The two schools – long concrete structures with rectangular doorways and windows – still stand and have been refurbished. A number of houses, some made of adobe bricks and others of concrete, also remain and are aither deserted or inhabited by Jewish families. They are architecturally simple and have rectangular doors and windows' most of their roofs are flat. Cactuses and a variety of trees line an old village road, and the site is generally dotted by sycamore and cypress trees. Parts of the surrounding land are covered by construction but some parts are cultivated by Israelis.

Source

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

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