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District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago |
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Occupation Date | October 30, 1948 | ||||||||||||||||
Distance From District | 10 (km) North of Safad | ||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 675 (meters) | ||||||||||||||||
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Map Location | See location #39 on the map View from satellite |
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Military Operation | Operation Hiram | ||||||||||||||||
Exodus Cause | Military assault by Zionist troops | ||||||||||||||||
Village Temains | The village has been completely obliterated, and only house rubble left behind. | ||||||||||||||||
Ethnically Cleansing | 'Alma inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed. | ||||||||||||||||
Pre-Nakba Land Ownership |
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps |
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Land Usage As of 1945 |
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Town's Name Through History | The Crusades referred to the village by Alme. | ||||||||||||||||
Water Supply | The village had a pool and two water tanks which provided it with its water needs. | ||||||||||||||||
Archeological Sites | 'Alma had several nearby khribas and three inscribed architectural fragments from an ancient synagogue were found on the surface of the village | ||||||||||||||||
Exculsive Jewish Colonies Who Usurped Village Lands |
'Alma | ||||||||||||||||
Village Before NakbaThe village was situated on uneven ground in the heart of upper Galilee, about 4 km south of the Lebanese border. It was linked via secondary roads to neighboring villages. The Crusaders called this site Alme. In 1596, 'Alma was a village in the nahiya of Jira (liwa' of Safad) with a population of 239. It paid taxes on goats, beehives, a water-powered mill, and a press that was used for processing either olives or grapes. [[Hut. and Abd.:177]] In the late nineteenth century, 'Alma was a village built of stone with about 250 residents. It was situated in the middle of a fertile plain that contained a few gardens. [[SWP (1881) I:196]] In modern times its land area was larger than that of most other villages in the Safad sub-disctrict. It had a pool on its eastern edge and two water tanks, one on the southern side and the other on the southwestern.The residents of 'Alma were Muslims. They maintained a mosque for the village as well as an elementary school, which they shared with the neighboring village of al-Rihaniyya. The villagers obtained their living mainly from the land, raising livestock and growing crops, particularly grain and fruit. Their fruit orchards were concentrated on the northern and northwestern outskirts of the village. In the 1942/43 season, olive trees were grown on 750 dunums of village land, which was the largest area devoted to olives in the sub-district. The trees on 550 dunums were bearing fruit, which was processed with two horse-powered olive presses. In 1944 a total of 7,475 dunums was allocated to cereals, and 983 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Several ancient ruins were located near the village, and three inscribed architectural fragments from an ancient synagogue were found on the surface of the village site between 1914 and 1957. The inscriptions were in Hebrew and Aramaic. Village Occupation and Ethnic CleaningIsraeli units reached 'Alma in the latter stages of Operation Hiram (see 'Arab al-Samniyya, Acre sub-disctrict), on 30 October 1948, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris. He reports that the villagers had largely stayed put, despite the massacres committed by Israeli forces in Safsaf and Jish, both about 6 km southwest of 'Alma, on the previous day. Although the Israeli Minority Affairs Ministry later listed 'Alma among the villages that had surrendered during the operation and were therefore not 'punished,' Morris states that its residents were 'uprooted and expelled.' He does not give the circumstances of expulsion, but it was either carried out by units of the Seventh Brigade during the attack itself, or was implemented following an official decision taken in subsequent weeks.Zionists Colonies on Village LandsThe settlement of 'Alma (197273) was built on village land in 1949, about 0.5 km east of the village site.Village TodayThe site is fenced in and contains the rubble of former houses, covered with thorny grasses. One truncated stone wall with a door and two windows still stands. The land is planted with fruit trees by Israeli farmers.SourceDr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains. |
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Related Maps | Town Lands' Demarcation Maps خرائط للقضاء توضح حدود القرى والاودية Town's map on MapQuest View from satellite Help us map this town at WikiMapia |
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