Welcome To Fara - فارة (פארה)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

October 30, 1948

Distance From District

11.5 (km) North of Safad

Elevation

675 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Pre-Nakba Aerial View

Map Location

See location #38 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Operation Hiram

Attacking Units

The terror troops of Sheva' (Seventh) Brigade (committed several massacres)

Exodus Cause

Military assault by Zionist troops

Village Temains

The village has been completely destroyed with the exception of the village mosque.

Ethnically Cleansing

The village has been mostly terrorized by the news of the massacre committed by the Sheva' (Seventh) Brigade in the nearby villages of Safsaf and Jish.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	7,225
Jewish	0
Public	4
**Total	7,229

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	173
Olive Groves	86
Planted W/ Cereal	3,738
Built up	38
Arable	3,911
Non-Arable	3,280

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1596	281
19th century	100
1922	217
1931	229
1945	320
1948	371
Est. Refugees 1998	2,280

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

In (931): 42

Places of Warship

One Mosque (still standing, but it needs renovation guys!)

Nearby Wadies & Rivers

The village overlooked Wadi al-Fara.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Yir'on

Village Before Nakba

The village was perched on a relatively high, rocky hill that faced the southeast and overlooked Wadi Fara. Two roads that passed through other neighboring villages connected it to Safad. In 1596, Fara was a village in the nahiya of Jira (liwa' of Safad) with a population of 281. 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 that was used for processing either olives or grapes. [Hut. and Abd.:178] In the late nineteenth century, Fara was situated at the foot of a large hill and had a population of about 100. The houses were built of basalt stones and mud. [SWP (1881) I:197] The village had a rectangular layout; its longer sides were oriented in a northeast-southwest direction, and its houses were clustered together. It had a cistern on its east side and a pool about 0.25 km to the northeast. All of the residents of Fara were Muslims, and they earned their living primarily from animal husbandry and agriculture. Grain was their most important crop, but they also cultivated fruit trees; their orchards were west and southwest of the village. In 1944 a total of 3,738 dunums was allocated to cereals and 173 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The village fell into Israeli hands on 30 October 1948, in the final stage of Operation Hiram (see 'Arab al-Samniyya, Acre sub-district). Judging from information gathered by Israeli historian Benny Morris, Fara was probably captured by units of the Israeli army's Sheva' (Seventh) Brigade as they advanced through upper Galilee from Sa'sa' to al-Malikiyya, moving eastwards along a road parallel to the Lebanese border. Morris does not indicate what happened to the inhabitants, but if events followed the same pattern as in other villages in the area, they either were expelled or fled out of fear. They were likely to have heard of the nearby massacres committed at the beginning of Operation Hiram; after news of the carnage spread in Upper Galilee, only a few communities remained. [M:xiv, 217-19; see T:326]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land.

Village Today

One stone building (probably a mosque) stands on the site, as well as several stone terraces. On the whole, however, the site is overgrown with grass and fig trees. Less that 1 km north of it lies the settlement of Yir'on (192275). A portion of the land around the village is planted with fruit trees, such as apples, but the land along the valley's slope is deserted and uncultivated.

Source

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

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