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Occupation Date

May 26, 1948

Distance From District

7 (km) North East of Safad

Elevation

450 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #45 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Operation Hiram

Attacking Units

Sheva' Brigade

Acts of Terror

Massacre occured by Zionist troops against the town's inhabitants.

Exodus Cause

Military assault by Zionist troops

Village Temains

The village has been completely obliterated

Ethnically Cleansing

Marus was mostly ethnically cleansed on 28th of May 1948 as a result of psychological warfare. By 30th of October 1948, the village was completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	3,181
Jewish	0
Public	2
**Total	3,183

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	108
Olive Groves	53
Planted W/ Cereal	903
Built up	8
Arable	1,011
Non-Arable	2,164

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1922	45
1931	59
1945	80
1948	93
Est. Refugees 1998	570

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	12
1948	18

Near By Towns

	'Alma ↑ (N)	Dayshum ↗
Dallata ←	Marus	→ al-Husayniyya
↙ 'Ayn al-Zaytun	↓ Qabba'a	↘ al-Wayziyya

Water Supply

The spring of 'Ayn Abu Zamla supplied the village with its water needs.

Archeological Sites

The village contained a synagogue, which functioned as such from the 7th-12th centuries

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

No settlements on village lands

Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on a slope that descended from the eastern Upper Galilee Mountains and overlooked the al-Hula Plain to the east. Two wadis passed near the village, about 0.25 km to the north and approximately 0.5 km to the southwest. A spring, 'Ayn Abu Zamla (200270), flowed about 0.75 km south of it. In 1596, Marus was a village in the nahiya of Jira (liwa' of Safad) with a population of 176. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and fruits, as well as on other types of produce, such as goats. [Hut. and Abd.:178] Under the Mandate, Marus was classified as a hamlet (by the Palestine Index Gazetteer) and its entire population was Muslim. Grain cultivation and animal husbandry represented the chief sources of livelihood for the villagers. Figs as well as other fruits were also cultivated mainly to the east, northeast, and north of the site. In 1944/45 a total of 903 dunums was planted in cereals and 108 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Recent excavations at Marus have focused on what appears to have been a synagogue, which functioned as such from the seventh through the twelfth centuries, after which it was abandoned. In the fourteenth century the building was redesigned for use as a dwelling. Columns, tombs carved in rock, presses, and a cave with a carved stone entrance have been found at the site.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Israeli military intelligence reports a flight of villagers from Marus on 28 May 1948. This coincided with the departure of many villagers from the Galilee panhandle, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris, who says that Israeli forces prompted the exodus by carrying out scattered ground and mortar attacks. Palmach commander Yigal Allon had also set in motion a campaign of psychological warfare during the same period to induce the villagers of the entire area to leave. [M:123-24]

But the village was not occupied until the last days of the war, during the Israeli army's Operation Hiram (see 'Arab al-Samniyya, Acre sub-district), when the whole of Upper Galilee was seized by Israeli forces. Any villagers remaining in Marus were probably expelled by the Sheva' Brigade on 30 October, towards the end of the operation. [M:xiv; see 224 ff.]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land.

Village Today

The site contains some olive and fig trees as well as stones from ruined homes. The surrounding land is used for grazing.

Source

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

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