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Welcome To Abil al-Qamh - آبل القمح (אבל אל-קמח)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 10, 1948
Distance From District 32 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation 350 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #1 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Yiftach (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)
Attacking Units The Palmach's First Battalion
Exodus Cause Fear of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed, and only house walls and rubble left behind
Ethnically Cleansing As a result of a campaign of psychological warfare on the 10th of May 1948, the village was completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 3,116
Jewish 1,327
Public 172
**Total 4,615
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 299 3
Olive Groves 6 0
Planted W/ Cereal 2,537 1,320
Built up 13 0
Arable 2,836 1,323
Non-Arable 439 4
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 143
1931 229
1945 330
1948 383
Est. Refugees 1998 2,351
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 58
1948 97
Near By Townswhat's new
Lebanon
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Lebanon  ←
Abil al-Qamh
→   Lebanon
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al-Khalisa
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al-Zuq al-Fawqani
Town's Name Through History The village was also known by the name of Abil al-Mayya because of it abundant water sources
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Yuval

Village Before Nakba

The village was built in a hilly area north of the aI-Hula Plain, a short distance east of a highway that led north to al-Mutilla (some 3 km away) and south to Safad.1t was about1 km from the Lebanese border and had been part of Lebanon until 1923, when it was annexed to Palestine under the British Mandate. One of the meanings of the first part of the name, which came from a Semitic root, is 'meadow.' The second part, qamh, means 'wheat' in Arabic. Abil al-Qamh was established on a site that had been inhabited as early as 2900 B.C. and that remained populated for at least 2,000 years. This was the location of one of the cities that was captured by Thutmose III in 1468 B.C. During the reign of David it became a fortified place that was later captured by the Arameans. Assyrian inscriptions mentioned Abel-Beth-Ma'aka as one of the towns they captured in 733 or 734 B.C. The name of Abil al-Qamh next appears much later, in a work by the Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi (d. 1228). In 1596, Abil al-Qamh was a village in the nahiya of Tibnin (liwa' of Safad) with a population of 143. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and olives, as well as on other types of produce and property such as goats, beehives, and vineyards.

In the late nineteenth century, Abil al-Qamh was situated near a stream and surrounded by arable land. There was a church in the village and ancient ruins stood nearby. In modern times the village had a triangular outline that conformed to the contours of the hill on which it was built. The village houses were made of a combination of mud and stone, concrete and stone, or concrete. Its population consisted of 230 Muslims and 100 Christians. Agriculture was the mainstay of the village economy. In 1944/45 a total of 2,535 dunums was allocated to cereals and 299 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. The wheat fields that ringed the site of the village, well-known for their fertility, benefited from abundant water. The water was so plentiful that the people of the region sometimes called the village Abil al-Mayya ('the meadow of water'). In addition to other ruins in the vicinity, an archaeological site, located east of the village near Kefar Gil'adi (203294), contained rock-hewn tombs, granite tools, and tombstones.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

An Israeli intelligence report issued at the end of June 1948 claimed that the village was evacuated on 10 May 1948. The occupation of eastern Galilee during this period was assigned to various Zionist forces, mainly the Palmach's First Battalion, within the scope of Operation Yiftach.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

In 1952, Israel established the settlement of Yuval (206294) on village land, about 1.5 km from the site. Yuval is near the border of the village land of al-Zuq al-Fawqani.

Village Today

The village site is overgrown with grasses and weeds. A grove of trees stands in the northeast corner, and stones from destroyed houses are strewn throughout the site. The surrounding land is used as pasture.

Source

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