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Welcome To Lifta - لفتا (ליפתא)

District of Jerusalem
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Picture for Lifta Village - Palestine: : A rare view of Lifta just before the
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date January 1, 1948
Distance From District 5 (km) West of Jerusalem
Elevation 675 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
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Pre-Nakba Aerial View
Map Location See location #4 on the map

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Acts of Terror Six people were gunned down on the 28th December 1947 when Jewish terrorists (probably from Begin's IZL or the Stern gang) shot them in the village coffee house.
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains Lifta was mostly destroyed with the exception of few deserted houses (including the village mosque and its club) and some houses are used by homeless and hippie Israelis, see Pictures section for details.
Ethnically Cleansing Soon after the terror act on Lifta's coffee house, its population was terrorized repeatedly into leaving by Menachem Begin's IZL and Yitzhak Shamir's Stern terror gangs. By February 1948, the village was completely emptied and all of its inhabitants were trucked to East Jerusalem.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 7,780
Jewish 756
Public 207
**Total 8,743
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Olive Groves 1,044 0
Planted W/ Cereal 3,248 288
Built up 324 102
Arable 3,248 288
Non-Arable 4,415 366
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 396
1922 1,451
1931 1,893
1945 2,550
1948 2,958
Est. Refugees 1998 18,165
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses In (1931): 410 (includes Schneller's Quarter)
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Town's Name Through History During the Biblical and Roman periods, Lifta was known by Nephtoah, the Byzantines called it Nephtho, and the Crusades referred to Lifta with Clepsta.
Schools Lifta had two elementary schools, one was for boys and the other for girls.
Town's Notable People In 1834, Lifta was the site of a battle in which the Egyptian army under Ibrahim Pasha (the son of Muhammad Ali) defeated local rebels led by a prominent local ruler, al-Shaykh Qasim al-Ahmad.
Places of Warship One mosque (remain standing)
Shrines / Maqams A shrine for a local sage known by al-Shaykh Badr.
Nearby Wadies & Rivers The village overlooks Wadi Salman, also Wadi al-Shami was used for agriculture and providing irrigation water.
Water Supply Lifta's drinking water was drawn from a spring in Wadi al-Shami, see Pictures section for details.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
Currently, it is the suburbs of West Jerusalem.
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Village Today

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
Most of the houses remaining on the site are deserted, although some have been restored for the use of Jewish families. A basin that had been built around the spring in Wadi al-Shami lies in ruins. The mosque and the village club are still visible, north of the spring. Adjacent to the mosque, on the western side, is a cemetery covered with bushes and wild grass
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Ayan ,Denan,Ahmed Khalaf Saad Doha
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MOHAMMAD MA'ALI معالي السعودية
Derar Hamoudeh Moqbel NY, USA
Mohamed Ahmad Liftawi - Doha, Qatar
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