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Welcome To Mallaha - ملاحة (عرب الزبيد) (מלאחה)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 25, 1948
Distance From District 16 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation 75 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #33 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 Haganah 'Wispering' campaign (psychological warfare)
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed.
Ethnically Cleansing Mallaha inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 1,838
Jewish 294
Public 36
**Total 2,168
*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 1,761 294
Built up 20 0
Arable 1,761 294
Non-Arable 93 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 697
1931 654
1945 890
1948 1,032
Est. Refugees 1998 6,340
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 161
1948 254
Near By Townswhat's new
al-Nabi Yusha'
          ↖
Baysamun
↑
(N)
Harrawi  ←
Mallaha
→   Hulah Lake
↓
al-'Ulmaniyya
Nearby Wadies & Rivers The village was situated on the northern banks of Wadi al-Barid.
Water Supply Wadi al-Barid contained the spring of 'Ayn Mallaha, which was considered to be one of the most productive springs in Palestine.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Yesud ha-Ma'ala is nearby village lands.

Village Before Nakba

The village was located on the north bank of Wadi Barid, a seasonal watercourse which flowed into the northwest corner of Lake al-Hula. This wadi was filled by water from the spring of 'Ayn Mallaha (204276), which lay to the south of the village and which was one of the most copious springs in Palestine, yeilding between 1,800 and 2,700 cubic meters of water per hour. The village of Mallaha lay along a highway that led to Safad and Tiberias. In 1157, following a breakdown in relations between Damascus and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, Mallaha was close to the site of a battle between the armies of Nur al-Din ibn Zangi (also known by his first name Mahmud) [Maalouf 1987:143-58] and King Baldwin III (in command of the Templars), in which the Muslims decisively defeated the Crusaders. Their king escaped, however, together with a small bodyguard. [D 6/2:165-66] The Syrian Sufi traveler al-Bakri al-Siddiqi, who journeyed in Palestine in the mid-eighteenth century, passed by a village named al-Mallaha, which may have been the present village. [AI-Khalidi 1968:202] The American biblical scholar Edward Robinson observed in 1838 that al-Mallaha lay northwest of Lake al-Hula. [Robinson (1841) III:341] The modern Mallaha had a roughly rectangular configuration that stretched from north to south. Its entire population was Muslim. Agriculture was the mainstay of the village's economy. In 1944/45 a total of 1,761 dunums was allocated to cereals.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Israeli forces seized Mallaha at the very end of Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-disctrict), on 25 May 1948. They induced the villagers to flee by carrying out a campaign of psychological warfare. However, a direct attack, which may have included the use of mortars, cannot be ruled out, since most of the psychological warfare was conducted some ten days before the reported date of evacuation. Furthermore, Zionist forces directed mortar fire against a number of other neighboring villages at this time in the context of Operation Yiftach.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands. The settlement of Yesud ha-Ma'ala (207273), founded in 1883, is some 5 km to the southeast.

Village Today

The sandy hill on which the village was situated is completely overgrown with tall grass, cactuses, and weeds, as well as an assortment of fig, eucalyptus, and date-palm trees. Amidst the overgrowth, stone rubble from destroyed houses can be seen. The surrounding land is cultivated by the settlement of Yesud ha-Ma'ala.

Source

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