Welcome To 'Arab al-Zubayd - عرب الزبيد (ערב א-זביד)

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Occupation Date

April 20, 1948

Distance From District

15 (km) North East of Safad

Elevation

100 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #34 on the map

View from satellite

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

In August 1948, the village has been completely obliterated

Ethnically Cleansing

'Arab al-Zubayd inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	1,838
Jewish	294
Public	36
**Total	2,168

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	0	12
Planted W/ Cereal	0	817
Built up	0	40
Arable	0	829
Non-Arable	66	16

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1922	697
1931	432
1945	160 (160 Jewish)

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

In (1931): 100 (includes al-'Ulmaniyya)

Near By Towns

Harrawi ↖		Mallaha ↗
Dayshum ←	'Arab al-Zubayd	→ Hulah Lake
↙ Marus		↘ al-'Ulmaniyya

Nearby Wadies & Rivers

TThe village was situated close to al-Barid River.

Water Supply

'Arab al-Zubayd contained many springs which terminated into al-Barid River.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

No settlements on village lands

Village Before Nakba

The village was built in the foothills of the Upper Galilee Mountains, which slope towards the al-Hula Plain. It was just west of the al-Mutilla-Safad-Tiberias highway. It benefitted from the presence of many springs, to the north and to the northeast. Together these springs formed the al-Barid River, which ended in the al-Hula marshland. 'Arab al-Zubayd's name suggests that its residents were members of the al-Zubayd Bedouin tribe. The entire village population was Muslim. Its economy was based on grain cultivation. In 1944/45 a total of 1,761 dunums was allocated to cereals.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The location of the village suggests that it fell within the scope of Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-disctrict). Israeli historian Benny Morris indicates that its population feared the possibility of a Jewish attack and fled on 20 April. If so, that would have been at the very beginning of the operation, prior to the attack on Safad and before the occupation of any villages in the area. [M:xiv, 120-24]

The subsequent fate of the village is quite revealing. Several months later, in August 1948, Golani Brigade units were preparing to blow up the village when a complaint arrived from the members of nearby Kibbutz Sha'ar ha-'Amaqim, who objected to the destruction of 'Arab al-Zubayd. Morris suggests that they may have complained because they were associates of Aharon Cohen, the director of the Arab Department of the left-wing Mapam party. The matter was even brought up in an Israeli cabinet meeting. Prime Minister Ben-Gurion denied responsibility, saying: 'No permission was given [by me] to any commander to destroy houses.' He promised to investigate, according to Morris. But the fuss raised by Mapam succeeded only in postponing the destruction of the village for a few months. It did not bring about the return of the villagers, and as Morris writes, 'in the absence of such a return, the village was doomed.' [M:166-67]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land.

Village Today

All that remains of 'Arab al-Zubayd is scattered rubble, buried under a thicket of woods, grass, and thorny plants. Irrigation works tap the village's water resources. Animals graze in the mountainous portion of the land near the site. Some land in the plain that borders the site has been converted into an Israeli nature reserve, while the rest is cultivated by Israeli farmers.

Source

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

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