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Welcome To Fir'im - فرعم (פירעים)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 26, 1948
Distance From District 4 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation 500 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #63 on the map

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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 destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing Fir'im inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 2,023
Jewish 163
Public 5
**Total 2,191
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 935 12
Olive Groves 700 0
Planted W/ Cereal 700 151
Built up 17 0
Arable 1,635 163
Non-Arable 376 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 446
19th century 200
1922 499
1931 527
1945 740
1948 858
Est. Refugees 1998 5,272
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 109
1948 177
Near By Townswhat's new
Biriyya
          ↖
Qabba'a
↑
(N)
Mughr al-Khayt
↗        
Safad  ←
Fir'im
→   Rosh Pina
↓
al-Ja'una
↘           
Rosh Pina
Town's Name Through History The Crusades referred to the village by Fir'im.
Schools The village had an elementary school for boys.
Local Council The village had a local council, composed of representatives of the village families, which managed the village's local affairs.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Chatzor ha-Gelilit settlement is nearby village lands.
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on the southeastern slope of Mount Kan'an, and overlooked the Ghawr (the low-lying area around the Jordan) between Lakes Tiberias and al-Hula. It was known by its present name during the Crusader period. In 1596, Fir'im was a village in the nahiya of Jira (liwa' of Safad) with a population of 446. 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, and a press that was used for processing either olives or grapes. [[Hut. and Abd.:179]] Travelers in the late nineteenth century described Fir'im as a stone-built village, situated at the end of a ridge. The villagers, who numbered about 200, cultivated small gardens and grew olives and figs. [[SWP (1881) I:197-98]]

The village was densely populated. Its stone houses were laid out in a northwest-southeast orientation. The entire population was Muslim. A village council, composed of representatives of the village families, dealt with issues that affected the community. The village had a boys' elementary school and two olive presses. Its economy was based on agriculture; fruit was the main crop, followed by grain. In the 1942/43 season, 700 dunums were planted with olive trees. Fruit trees were grown on all sides of the village, and especially in the northeast, north, west, and southwest. In 1944/45 a total of 700 dunums was allocated to cereals and 935 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Springs and wells provided water for agricultural and domestic use. An archaeological site near Fir'im contained the ruins of buildings and rock-hewn tombs

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

In accordance with the plan of Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-disctrict), Fir'im and two other villages were sporadically mortared on the night of 2 May 1948. The attacks were mounted on the three villages 'in order that in the end the Arabs would flee from them,' according to an Israeli military report on the operation. But some villagers appear to have remained, for a military intelligence report filed in June 1948 indicated that the village was evacuated on 26 May, as a result of a direct assault. It was the declared intention of Operation Yiftach to 'cleanse' eastern Galilee of its inhabitants during the month of May. Palestinian historian 'Arif al-'Arif adds that the fall of Fir'im demoralized the city of Safad

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land. The settlement of Chatzor ha-Gelilit (201265), established in 1953, is about 1 km southeast of the village.

Village Today

The rubble of destroyed village houses is scattered across the site. Some terraces with olive trees remain. Olive trees and cactuses grow on the site and the surrounding lands.Some small portions of these lands are wooded but most are used for pasture.

Source

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