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Welcome To Taytaba - طيطبا (טיטבא)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 1, 1948
Distance From District 5 (km) North of Safad
Elevation 800 (meters)
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Map Location See location #51 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Hiram
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed, and only the rubble of destroyed houses left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing The village has been mostly ethnically cleansed at the end Operation Yiftach (25th of May 1948)
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 8,441
Jewish 0
Public 12
**Total 8,453
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 585
Olive Groves 350
Planted W/ Cereal 5,178
Built up 61
Arable 5,763
Non-Arable 2,629
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 434
19th century 200
1922 299
1931 364
1945 530
1948 615
Est. Refugees 1998 3,776
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 60
1948 101
Near By Townswhat's new
Jish (Gush Halav)
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al-Ras al-Ahmar
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Rihaniya
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Safsaf  ←
Taytaba
→   Dallata
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Qaddita
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'Ayn al-Zaytun
Schools Taytaba had an elementary school for boys, which was built during the British Mandate period.
Places of Warship One mosque
Nearby Wadies & Rivers The village was overlooking Wadi Taytaba (a tributary of Wadi Waqqas).
Archeological Sites The village contained khirbat al-Tasarif, which had fragments of an ancient tomb.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Dalton is nearby village lands
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on rocky land at the crest of a volcanic hill, overlooking Wadi Taytaba (a tributary of Wadi Waqqas) to the southeast. It was linked by a network of secondary roads to surrounding villages as well as to a highway that led to Safad. In 1596, Taytaba was a village in the nahiya of Jira (liwa' of Safad) with a population of 434. It paid taxes on goats and beehives. [Hut. and Abd.:175) In the late nineteenth century, Taytaba was a village built of stone with a population of 200. Its residents cultivated gardens on the west side of the village.
In modern times the village houses were made of adobe brick and stone, and the entire population was Muslim. Taytaba had its own mosque in the southern part of the village as well as an elementary school for boys, built during the Mandate. Agriculture was the chief source of livelihood. In 1944/45 a total of 5,175 dunums was allocated to cereals and 585 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. East of the village was the mound of al-Tasarif which contained fragments of an ancient tomb. North of the village was a field of dolmens.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The earliest reported incidents at the village took place in February 1948. The New York Times reported that on 12 February, a British patrol had approached the village of Taytaba 'known to be harboring armed Arab volunteers.' The Arab forces attacked, British reinforcements were sent, and the British troops fought their way out. No casualties were reported. But two days later, on 15 February, a Haganah raiding party (which had committed a massacre at nearby Sa'sa') attacked Taytaba, according to a report filed by the Associated Press. No further details were given. [NYT:13/2/48, 16/2/48]

It is difficult to determine when Taytaba was occupied. One possibility is that it was overrun in the later stages of Operation yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-district), along with 'Ammuqa and Qaddita, in May 1948. On the other hand, it may have held out until Operation Hiram (see 'Arab al-Samniyya, Acre sub-district) in late October. The first possibility is more likely, since the History of the War of Independence indicates that the front lines at the beginning of Hiram ran northwards from the village of Mirun to Qadas, which implies that they were located just to the west of Taytaba. In that case, the villagers may have left or have been expelled some time between the fall of Safad, on 11 May, and the end of Operation Yiftach, on 25 May. Palestinian historian Nafez Nazzal states similarly that 'almost all' the villagers of Taytaba fled at the beginning of May, due to the bloody events at 'Ayn al-Zaytun (see 'Ayn al-Zaytun, Safad sub-district).

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands. The agricultural settlement of Dalton (196269), established in 1950, is close by, to the east.

Village Today

The village site contains the stone rubble of razed houses. A few olive trees still stand, growing among the thorny plants and grass. Part of the surrounding land is used by the settlement of Dalton for agriculture and pastures; other parts are wooded.

Source

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