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Welcome To Ras Abu 'Ammar - رأس أبو عمار (ראס אבו עמאר)

District of Jerusalem
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Picture for Ras Abu 'Ammar Village - Palestine: : قرية رأس ابو عمار في فلسطين ١٩٣٩.
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date October 21, 1948
Distance From District 14 (km) West of Jerusalem
Elevation 625 (meters) West
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #29 on the map

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Military Operation Operation ha-Har
Attacking Units Har'el Brigade
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains Ras Abu 'Ammar was mostly destroyed and defaced.
Ethnically Cleansing Ras Abu 'Ammar inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 8,313
Jewish 0
Public 29
**Total 8,342
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 925
Olive Groves 100
Planted W/ Cereal 2,791
Arable 3,716
Non-Arable 4,586
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1931 488
1945 620
1948 719
Est. Refugees 1998 4,417
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses In (1931): 106 (includes 'Ayn Hubin and'Aqqur)
Near By Townswhat's new
Dayr al-Shaykh
         
'Aqqur

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Bayt Saqiya
       
Bayt 'Itab  
   al-Walaja
           
'Allar
           
al-Qabu
Town's Name Through History The village may have been named after a local sage known as Shaykh Abu' Ammar, for whom the villager maintained a shrine/maqam for.
Schools The village had one elementary school for boys.
Shrines / Maqams Ras Abu 'Ammar had several shrines including the one for al-Shaykh Abu' Ammar.
Nearby Wadies & Rivers And it is surrounded on three sides by the deep Wadi al-Sarar.
Archeological Sites Khirbat Kafr Sum was inhabited during the Crusade period and also for some time in the 16th century.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
Tzur Hadassa
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on an elongated hill that stretched from southeast to northwest, surrounded on three sides by the deep Wadi al-Sarar that wound its way westward. It was also dominated by mountains on all sides, and was less than 1 km south of the Jerusalem−Jaffa railway line. A secondary road linked Ras Abu 'Ammar to a highway that ran south of it and led to Bethlehem. In the late nineteenth century, Ras Abu 'Ammar was described as a village built of stone on a small ridge, situated above an 'open and rather flat' valley in which the villagers planted olive trees. The village had a rectangular plan and most of its houses were built of stone. A main street, running in a northwest−southeast direction, divided the site into two sections. During the British Mandate, new construction extended along roads connecting it to the villages of al-Qabu and 'Aqqur in the east and north, and along the highway in the south. The village had an elementary school and a few small shops in its center. The villagers, who were Muslim, maintained more than one shrine for local sages, including one for a Shaykh Abu 'Ammar. They relied on springs for their drinking water and irrigation.

The village lands were utilized both for agriculture and pasture. Agriculture was based on rainfed grain, vegetables, and fruit trees, including olive trees (which covered 100 dunums) and grape vines. Irrigation of the latter was made possible by spring water that flowed from the mountain top and accumulated in ponds. In 1944/45 a total of 2,791 dunums was allocated to cereals; 925 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. The nearby Khirbat Kafr Sum (158126) was inhabited during the Crusader period and also during the sixteenth century.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The village probably fell to units of the Israeli army's Har'el Brigade in the course of Operation Ha-Har (see 'Allar, Jerusalem sub-disctrict). Israeli historian Benny Morris indicates that the village fell on 21 October 1948, as a result of a direct military assault.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Israel established the settlement of Tzur Hadassa (159125) on village lands in 1960, south of the village site.

Village Today

The stone rubble of the village houses is strewn across the site (see photos). Wild vegetation grows among the debris, in addition to almond, olive, and carob trees. Cactuses grow on the southeastern and southwestern sides of the site; a two-room stone building that used to be the schoolhouse still stands to the southeast.

Source

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

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