Welcome To Harrawi - هراوي (عرب الحمدون)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

May 25, 1948

Distance From District

18 (km) North East of Safad

Elevation

500 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #32 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

Defenders

Local militia & Arab Liberation Army

Exodus Cause

Military assault by Zionist troops

Village Temains

Harrawi was completely destroyed soon after occupation

Ethnically Cleansing

Harrawi inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	2,255
Jewish	1,471
Public	0
**Total	3,726

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Planted W/ Cereal	551	330
Built up	0	2
Arable	551	330
Non-Arable	1,704	1,139

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1931	148
1948	290
Est. Refugees 1998	1,781

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

In (1931): 36 (listed under 'Arab al-Hamdun)

Near By Towns

Qadas ↖	al-Nabi Yusha' ↑ (N)	Baysamun ↗
Qadas ←	Harrawi	→ Mallaha
↙ Dayshum	↓ 'Arab al-Zubayd	↘ 'Arab al-Zubayd

Town's Name Through History

The was also known by the name of 'Arab al-Hamdun

Inhabitants Place of Origin

The people of Harrawi were descendants of Bedouin from the 'Arab al-Hamdun tribe

Archeological Sites

The village contained ruins include the foundations of walls, tessellated floors, a wine-press, and Greek inscriptions

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Ramot Naftali is close by village lands

Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on a mountain peak in eastern Upper Galilee, overlooking the aI-Hula Plain. A trail that passed it in a northwestern direction linked it to the village of Qadas. Forests abounded in the area around the village. Its houses were generally grouped close together in a circular pattern, although some newer housing was built toward the east. The people of Harrawi were descendants of Bedouin from the 'Arab al-Hamdun tribe. Some of them continued to migrate in winter to the lowlands adjacent to the al-Hula Plain, where their animals could graze. They also worked in agriculture, and in 1944/45 they planted a total of 551 dunums in cereals. Evidence of earlier habitation, most of which appears to date to the Byzantine period, abounds in the village. The ruins include the foundations of walls, tessellated floors, a wine-press, and Greek inscriptions.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

An early incident in the vicinity of the village was reported in February 1948 by the Palestinian daily Filastin. According to that report, an Arab bus en route from al-Hula to Safad was ambushed at Harrawi on 12 February by a Zionist military unit. A mine exploded under the bus and the attackers fired at the passengers and threw firebombs, killing four people. [F:13/2/48]

On 5 May 1948, Arab Liberation Army (ALA) commander Fawzi al-Qawuqji reported that 'the Jews have occupied all the hills around Harrawi.' This occurred in the early stages of Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-district). The area was defended by the ALA's Second Yarmuk Battalion, commanded by Lt. Col. Adib al-Shishakli, later president of Syria. The village was probably occupied by mid-May, because Arab forces claimed to have reoccupied Harrawi after the entry of Arab armies into Palestine. A New York Times report out of Damascus stated on 17 May that Lebanese troops and Arab 'irregulars' supported by Syrian aircraft had claimed victories at Harrawi and al-Malikiyya, 5 km to the northwest. The village may not have remained long in Arab hands, however, since the closest villages to Harrawi, Mallaha and Baysamun, both fell into Israeli hands at the very end of Operation Yiftach, on 25 May. [NYT:18/5/48; Q:62; see M:121-22]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

No Israeli settlements have been built on village lands, although Ramot Naftali (202278), founded in 1945 north/northwest of Harrawi, is on the neighboring lands of the village of al-Nabi Yusha'.

Village Today

No traces of the village are visible. Woods cover the slopes and peak of the mountain on which the village was located. Some of the lands in the area are wooded while others have been planted by Israelis with fruit trees.

Source

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

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