Welcome To Dallata - دلاتة (דלאתה)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

May 10, 1948

Distance From District

6 (km) North of Safad

Elevation

825 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #46 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

Military assault by Zionist troops

Village Temains

The village has been completely obliterated, and only house rubble left behind.

Ethnically Cleansing

Dallata inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	9,072
Jewish	0
Public	2
**Total	9,074

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	302
Olive Groves	52
Planted W/ Cereal	3,651
Built up	37
Arable	3,953
Non-Arable	5,084

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1596	127
19th century	100
1922	204
1931	256
1945	360
1948	418
Est. Refugees 1998	2,565

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	43
1948	70

Town's Name Through History

The Crusades referred to Dalata by Deleha

Schools

The village had a small school which had an enrollment of 37 students in 1945.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Dalton

Village Before Nakba

The village, located on the upper slope of a relatively high hill, was built on the ruins of an ancient site that contained old structures, caves that had once been inhabited, cisterns, and large pools (see photo). During the Crusader period the site was called Deleha. In 1596, Dallata was a village in the nahiya of Jira (liwa' of Safad) with a population of 127. 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, vineyards, and a press which was used for processing either olives or grapes. [Hut. and Abd.:177]

In the late nineteenth century, Dallata was a village built of stone and mud, with about 100 residents. Visitors to the area reported that the village was located at the foot of a large hill, surrounded by olive groves and arable land. [SWP (1881) I:197] The village was surrounded by stone formations suitable for construction, and its houses were spaced at comfortable distances from each other. Springs provided water for domestic purposes. The entire population was Muslim. The village had a small school that had thirty-seven students in 1945. The villagers worked primarily in rainfed agriculture, although some engaged in animal husbandry and others worked in wood cutting and trade. The dominant crops were fruits of various kinds and olives, which were planted in scattered patches around the village. Grain was grown in nearby wadis and in small plots on the lower slopes of the hills. In 1944/45 a total of 3,651 dunums were allocated to cereals and 302 dunums were used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Dallata was probably occupied sometime after the fall of the sub-disctrict capital of Safad on 10-11 May. Indirect evidence suggests that the village was seized in the course of Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-disctrict). If so, it was probably one of the villages attacked in the latter stages of the operation, like neighboring 'Ammuqa, occupied on 24 May. [See M: l20-24]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Israel established the settlement of Dalton (196269) in 1950 on village lands, slightly southwest of the village site.

Village Today

All that remains are the debris of the houses scattered across the site, partly covered by grass, shrubs, and trees. A few stone terraces on village land are still intact, and some olive trees still grow (see photos). About 1 km south of the site lies the Israeli settlement of Dalton. Part of the land around the village has been turned into a forest, while other parts of it are used as pasture.

Source

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

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