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Welcome To Indur - إندور (عين دور) (אינדור)

District of Nazareth
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Occupation Date May 24, 1948
Distance From District 10.5 (km) Southeast of Nazareth
Elevation 175 (meters)
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Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
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Map Location See location #4 on the map

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Military Operation Possible Baysan valley Clearing (Operation Gideon)
Attacking Units Golani Brigade
Defenders Some Palestinian and ALA volunteers, and possibly some Syrian Army.
Village Temains Indur was completely destroyed, and only house walls and rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing Indur inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 10,414
Jewish 0
Public 2,030
**Total 12,444
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 24
Irrigated & Plantation 394
Olive Groves 180
Planted W/ Cereal 10,061
Built up 29
Arable 10,479
Non-Arable 1,936
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 22
1922 311
1931 445
1945 620
1948 719
Est. Refugees 1998 4,417
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 75
1948 121
Near By Townswhat's new
Iksal
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Dabburiya
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Mt. Tabor
↗        
Na'in  ←
Indur
→   Kafr Misr
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al-Dahi
↓
Na'ura
↘           
Tamra
Schools Indur had an elementary school for boys which was founded by the Ottomans, however, it closed its doors during the British Mandate period.
Town's Notable People A prominent son of the village was , Shaykh Tawfiq Ibrahim, one of the leaders of the 1936-39 rebellion against the British Mandate.
Archeological Sites The Canaanite town of 'Ayn Dur (Endor) probably was situated on Tall al-'Ajjul or or Khirbat al-Safsafa.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 No Israeli settlements on village land
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on the lower, northeastern slopes of Mount al-Dahi, facing north and overlooking the plain of Marj ibn 'Amir. Indur lay a few km from a highway that led to Tiberias and Nazareth; the pipeline of the British-owned Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) passed 0.5 km north of the village. The village name probably preserved that of the Canaanite town of 'Ayn Dur (Endor), 'spring of the sanctuary,' which is mentioned in the Bible as the place where Saul consulted a soothsayer before going into battle against the Philistines (1 Kings 28:18–25). The ancient town may have been located on the site of Indur itself or on that of Tall al-'Ajjul (185226) or Khirbat al-Safsafa (187227), two nearby khirbas. The Crusaders called it Endor. In 1596, Indur was a village in the nahiya of Shafa (liwa' of Lajjun) with a population of twenty-two. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and olives, as well as on other types of property such as goats and beehives.

In the late nineteenth century, Indur was a village built of adobe bricks and situated against a steep hillside. Several small caves were located above the village (see photo). A prominent son of the village was Shaykh Tawfiq Ibrahim, one of the leaders of the 1936–39 rebellion against the British. He was an associate of Shaykh Izzeddin al-Qassam, the Muslim preacher from Haifa (born in Jabla, south of Latakiya) whose death in action against British forces in 1935 triggered the rebellion in the following year.

Indur consisted of a string of houses that curved back and forth in conformity with the contours of the site. Its houses were made of stone and cement or stone and mud. Its population was Muslim, with the exception of one Christian. An elementary school (in which children from the neighboring village of Nin were also enrolled) was established under Ottoman rule but was closed by the British Mandate government. Grain cultivation constituted the main component of the village economy. In 1944/45 a total of 24 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 9,864 dunums were allotted to cereals; 394 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 180 dunums were planted with olive trees. The villagers also engaged in animal husbandry. The presence of rock-cut cisterns, silos, and tombs, as well as abandoned houses, the ruins of which were close to the village's inhabited dwellings, indicated that the site had been occupied for a long time.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Israeli historian Benny Morris reports that the village was occupied on 24 May 1948; the villagers of Indur may have left as a result of a military assault and under the influence of the fall of the neighboring town of Baysan. Although most of the Baysan Valley had been conquered by the Haganah before 15 May, the Golani Brigade went on 'cleansing and defending' the area until early June.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land. The settlement of Davrat (183228) is close by, due west of the village site. It was founded in 1946 on the boundary between the lands of Indur and those of the village of Dabburiyya (185233).

Village Today

Many partially ruined walls still stand on the village site. Date, doum palm, fig, and almond trees grow on the village lands (see photos section). The surrounding flat lands are cultivated by Israelis and the hilly lands serve as grazing areas.

Source

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