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Welcome To Saliha - صلحة (צאלחה)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date October 30, 1948
Distance From District 12 (km) North of Safad
Elevation 675 (meters)
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Map Location See location #35 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Hiram
Attacking Units The massacre of 94 people by the terror soldiers of Sheva' (Seventh) 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 mostly destroyed with the exception of the deserted village school
Ethnically Cleansing Saliha inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 11,730
Jewish 0
Public 5
**Total 11,735
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 422
Olive Groves 20
Planted W/ Cereal 7,401
Built up 58
Arable 7,823
Non-Arable 3,854
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
19th century 200
1931 742
1945 1,070
1948 1,241
Est. Refugees 1998 7,622
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 142
1948 237
Schools Saliha had an elementary school for boys.
Nearby Wadies & Rivers The village stood on a plain at the edge of a steep wadi, called Wadi Saliha.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Yir'on and Avivim

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a plain at the edge of a steep wadi, called Wadi Saliha; it was in the Upper Galilee Mountains, next to the Lebanese border. A path linked it to two roads, one leading to the coastal highway and another going to Safad. In the late nineteenth century Saliha was a village of about 200 people who cultivated gardens in the surrounding area and built their homes out of basalt stones mortared with mud. They took their drinking water from several cisterns and a large pond. [SWP (1881) I:202-3] Its population was predominantly Muslim. It had an elementary school for boys. In 1944/45 a total of 7,401 dunums of its land was allocated to cereals; 422 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Artifacts in the village included rock-cut tombs, traces of mosaic floors, and oil presses. The nearby Khirbat al-Sanifa also contained ancient relics, such as a circular pressing floor.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Citing Arab military sources in Amman, the United Press reported that Saliha (along with Kafr Bir'im) was occupied by Israeli forces on 18 May. The occupation may have been only temporary, because Israeli sources cited by historian Benny Morris state that a massacre was perpetrated at Saliha on 30 October 1948, at the end of Operation Hiram (see 'Arab al-Samniyya, Acre sub-disctrict).

An account of the October massacre was given by Israel Galili, the former head of the Haganah National Staff, to a meeting of Mapam party officials. Galili briefed the meeting on a number of atrocities committed during Operation Hiram, especially by the Sheva' (Seventh) Brigade. He said that at Saliha, ninety-four people 'were blown up with a house.' The Sheva' Brigade had been ordered to proceed from the village of Sa'sa' in a northeast direction, to occupy al-Malikiyya. Along the way, its forces 'encountered light resistance' near Saliha, according to the History of the War of Independence. But the Haganah account gives no details of the military action taken in response. If any villagers survived the Saliha massacre, they were probably expelled, along with the residents of most border villages. [M:230; NYT:19/5/48; T:325‒26]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Israel founded the settlement of Yir'on (192275) on the village site in 1949. In 1960, the settlement of Avivim (194277) was constructed on village lands, northeast of the village site. [M:xx]

Village Today

The only remaining landmark is a long building (which may have been a school) with many high windows. The site is a flat, mostly cultivated area. The bulk of surrounding land is planted by Israeli farmers with apple trees.

Source

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