Welcome To Sabalan - سبلان (סבלאן)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

October 30, 1948

Distance From District

15.5 (km) West of Safad

Elevation

800 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #48 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Operation Hiram

Attacking Units

Golani's First Battalion and Sheva' (Seventh) Brigade

Exodus Cause

Military assault by Zionist troops

Village Temains

The village has been mostly destroyed with the exception of one house, a village well, and the shrine for al-Nabi Sabalan.

Ethnically Cleansing

Sabalan inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	1,262
Jewish	0
Public	536
**Total	1,798

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	144
Olive Groves	65
Planted W/ Cereal	421
Built up	14
Arable	565
Non-Arable	1,219

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
19th century	100
1922	68
1931	94
1945	70
1948	81
Est. Refugees 1998	499

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	18
1948	18

Places of Warship

One mosque

Shrines / Maqams

The village contained a shrine or a tomb for one al-Nabi Sabalan

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

No settlements on village lands

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a high mountain top and overlooked the predominantly Druze village of Hurfaysh, less than 1 km to the northeast. It was linked by dirt roads to the Safad-Tarshiha highway, about 3 km to the south, and by other roads to neighboring villages such as Sa'sa' and Hurfaysh. Travelers who visited the village in the late nineteenth century described Sabalan as a stone-built village situated on top of a high hill. The village, which surrounded the tomb of one Nabi (prophet) Sabalan, had a population of 100. The residents cultivated figs and olives. [SWP (1881) I:199]

Sabalan had a circular outline; the steep slopes that bordered it permitted expansion only on its northwestern side. Its houses were clustered closely together. Its entire population was Muslim; a mosque was located at the center of the village. In 1944/45 a total of 421 dunums was allotted to cereals; 144 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Archaeological artifacts such as rock-cut tombs were found in the center of the village near the tomb of al-Nabi Sabalan.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Sabalan was occupied on 30 October 1948, during Operation Hiram (see 'Arab al-Samniyya, Acre sub-district), when Israeli forces captured Upper Galilee. The village was probably overrun as units of the Golani Brigade advanced northwestwards along the Suhmata‒Sa'sa' road. According to the History of the War of Independence, when the Golani's First Battalion reached Sa'sa', it met with units of the Sheva' (Seventh) Brigade, which had constituted the eastern flank of the same operation.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands.

Village Today

Only one village house and a well remain. The house is now occupied by the guard and caretakers of the shrine of al-Nabi Sabalan, which stands opposite the house (see photos). New buildings have been constructed for visitors to the shrine, which is sacred to the Druze.

Source

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

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