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Welcome To Khan al-Duwayr - خان الدوير (ח'אן א-דויר)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 30, 1948
Distance From District 35 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation 200 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #4 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.
Ethnically Cleansing Khan al-Duwayr inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 2,163
Jewish 3,054
Public 371
**Total 5,588
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Population
Year Population*
19th century 20
1931 137
1945 260
1948 302
Est. Refugees 1998 1,852
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 29
1948 63
Archeological Sites The village had khirbat Tall al-Qadi lay about 1 km to the northwest of the village.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Dafna and Dan are close by village lands

Village Before Nakba

The village was located on the northeast margin of the al-Hula Plain and overlooked it towards the south. A secondary road passed immediately to the northwest of it and linked Khan al-Duwayr to the town of Banyas in Syria, to a number of villages (including al-Khalisa), and to a highway that led to Safad. It had always been an important stop for the commercial caravans journeying between Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon. An archaeological site known as Tall aI-Qadi lay about 1 km to the northwest. This may have been the biblical Laish, referred to in the Old Testament (Judges 18:29) as a walled town conquered by the tribe of Dan in the twelfth century B.C.

In the late nineteenth century, Khan al-Duwayr consisted merely of two stone houses in which twenty people lived. Situated on the slope of a hill, the dwellings were surrounded by olive trees and cultivated land. During the Mandate it was classified as a hamlet in the Palestine Index Gazetteer. Its houses were made of black basalt and mud. In 1944/45 a total of 96 dunums was allocated to cereals; 2,067 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Located in the northern tip of the Galilee panhandle, Khan al-Duwayr may not have been entered by Zionist forces until the end of Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-district) in late May 1948. But it is more likely that the village came under attack well before then, as the Haganah pushed to control the northern border before the end of the British Mandate on 15 May. Furthermore, the village was accessible from the Jewish settlement of Dafna, which was one of the launching pads for forays into Syria undertaken by Zionist forces during this period. Thus, it may have been targeted in the early stages of Yiftach, in the second half of April.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land. However, the settlements of Dafna (210292) and Dan (211293), both established in 1939, are close to the village site; the former is about 3 km southwest of it, while the latter is 2 km to the west.

Village Today

The site is deserted, overgrown with grass. Only the ruins of a khan (caravansary) are visible. The surrounding land is either cultivated by Israelis, or used as forest or pasture.

Source

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