Welcome To Baysamun - بيسمون (ביסמון)

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Statistic & Fact

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Occupation Date

May 25, 1948

Distance From District

16.5 (km) North East of Safad

Elevation

75 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #30 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

Haganah 'Wispering' campaign (psychological warfare)

Village Temains

The village has been completely obliterated

Ethnically Cleansing

Baysamun was ethnically cleansed as a result of psychological warfare conducted on the 25th of May 1948.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	2,057
Jewish	0
Public	45
**Total	2,102

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	107
Planted W/ Cereal	1,817
Arable	1,924
Non-Arable	178

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1922	41
1931	50
1945	20
1948	23
Est. Refugees 1998	143

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	11
1948	11

Near By Towns

	Jahula ↑ (N)
Dayshum ←	Baysamun	→ Hulah Lake
	↓ Mallaha

Town's Name Through History

Baysamun name may have been a derivation of Bayt (meeaning a house) and Ashmun (a Phoenician god).

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

No settlements on village lands

Village Before Nakba

The village stood in a flat area that faced a mountain range on the west and overlooked the aI-Hula Plain on the other sides. It was linked by a short dirt road to a highway that ran west of it and led to Safad and Tiberias. The name Baysamun may have been a derivation of bayt (house) and Ashmun (a Phoenician god), which would mean "temple of Ashmun" in Phoenician. In modern times, Baysamun was a small village, designated a hamlet in the Mandate-era Palestine Index Gazetteer, whose houses were scattered in an east-west direction along the road that connected it to the highway. Its population was predominantly Muslim. Springs lay on its western and southern sides, and orange trees were planted to the north. In 1944/45 the villagers used 1,817 dunums of its land for growing cereals; 107 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

According to an Israeli military intelligence report in June 1948, the people of Baysamun fled as a direct result of a Palmach "whispering campaign" on 25 May. Such exercises in psychological warfare were an integral part of Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-disctrict). [M:122-23)

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on the village site or on village lands.

Village Today

No traces of the houses remain. The site is occupied by warehouses for agricultural implements used by Kibbutz Manara (201289), which had been established in 1943 (see photo). The land around the site is cultivated and fish ponds have been constructed close to it.

Source

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

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