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Welcome To Ghuraba - غرابة (ע'וראבה)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 28, 1948
Distance From District 22 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation 100 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #25 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 Fear of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing Ghuraba inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 2,935
Jewish 478
Public 40
**Total 3,453
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 2,928 478
Arable 2,928 478
Non-Arable 47 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1931 124
1945 220
1948 255
Est. Refugees 1998 1,567
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 27
1948 55
Near By Townswhat's new
Hulah Lake  
   Golan Heights
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
Gonen
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on the lower slopes of the Golan Heights, some 13 km northeast of what the northeastern shore of Lake al-Hula was before it was drained (1951). The marshlands that extended north of Lake al-Hula were directly to its west, and on its east was the Syrian border. There were a number of springs close to the village. Its entire population was Muslim. The economy of Ghuraba was heavily dependent on agriculture and animal husbandry. In 1944/45 a total of 2,928 dunums was devoted to irrigated agriculture and orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

An Israeli intelligence report on Operation Yiftach dated 30 June 1948 said that the villagers of Ghuraba, in fear of an attack by Zionist forces, fled on May (see Abil aI-Qamh, Safad sub-disctrict). [M:123-24]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

In 1951, the settlement of Gonen (210281) was established north of the village site, on village land.

Village Today

The stones of ruined houses are strewn across the fencedin site. Segments of a few stone walls still stand. The site and the surrounding land are used for grazing.

Source

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

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