Welcome To al-'Abisiyya - العابسية (אל-עאבסיה)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

May 29, 1948

Distance From District

28.5 (km) North East of Safad

Elevation

75 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #15 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Operation Yiftach (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)

Attacking Units

The Palmach's First Battalion

Village Temains

The village has been completely obliterated.

Ethnically Cleansing

al-'Abisiyya was ethnically cleansed as a result of a psychological warfare on the 25th of May 1948.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	13,671
Jewish	1,257
Public	501
**Total	15,429

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves	4	0
Irrigated & Plantation	6,390	231
Planted W/ Cereal	2,830	509
Built up	17	40
Arable	9,224	740
Non-Arable	4,931	477

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
19th century	70
1931	609
1945	1,510 (290 Jewish)

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

In (1931): 123

Near By Towns

al-Khisas ↖	al-Mansura ↑ (N)
Qaytiyya ←	al-'Abisiyya	→ Golan Heights
	↓ Hulah Lake

Nearby Wadies & Rivers

The village close to the Banyas River.

Water Supply

The village used the water of Banyas River for irrigation, and several nearby springs were used for drinking water.

Archeological Sites

The village contained the following khirbas:- Tall al-Sakhina, Tall al-Shari'a, and al-Shaykh Ghannam

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

'Amir , Sde Nechemya, and Kefar Szold

Village Before Nakba

While the Arab section of the village was demolished, several rooms and stone walls still stand. One of the walls has a rectangular doorlike opening and another has an arched entrance. Otherwise, the site is covered with grass and trees and has become part of the settlement of Meron. The surrounding land is partly planted with apple trees and partly forested; some land also serves as pasture. The area is a tourist attraction.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

According to Israeli military intelligence, the villagers fled on 25 May 1948, partly as a result of a campaign of psychological warfare that the Israelis implemented in conjunction with Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-district). But the village may also have suffered a direct military assault, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris. One of the avowed aims of Operation Yiftach was to render the eastern Galilee and the panhandle empty of all its Palestinian residents. [M:122-23]

As early as 18 May, a neighboring Jewish settlement was planning to seize a large part of the lands of this village. The members of Kibbutz Sde Nechemya (Huliot) wrote to the head of the Agricultural Center 'asking, somewhat shamefacedly, for 1,700 dunams of the lands of el 'Abisiya.'

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Prior to 1948, three Jewish settlements were founded very close to the village site. The settlements of 'Amir (208287), built in 1939, and Sde Nechemya (208288), built in 1940, are closer to the site than is the third settlement, Kefar Szold, but are on land that belonged to the village of al-Dawwara (209287). Kefar Szold (211289), established in 1942 on what was traditionally village land, is east of the site.

Village Today

No trace of the village remains. The site is covered with grass, shrubs, and a few scattered trees. The lands around the site are cultivated by the settlement of Kefar Szold.

Source

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

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