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Welcome To al-Buwayziyya - البويزية والميس (אל-בויזיה)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Picture for al-Buwayziyya Village - Palestine: : اثار البيوت الباقية في قرية البويزية - 16.4.2005 - تصوير : مقبولة نصار
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 11, 1948
Distance From District 22 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation 100 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #20 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Yiftach (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)
Attacking Units The Palmach's First Battalion
Exodus Cause Influence of fall of, or exoduce from, neighboring town
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Buwayziyya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 13,226
Jewish 503
Public 891
**Total 14,620
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 56 0
Planted W/ Cereal 2,770 343
Built up 17 0
Arable 2,826 343
Non-Arable 11,274 160
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 276
1931 318
1945 510
1948 592
Est. Refugees 1998 3,633
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 75
1948 139
Near By Townswhat's new
al-Manara
         
al-Khalisa

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al-Na'ima
       
Lebanon  
   Hulah Lake

Qadas
           
Jahula
Schools The village had elementary school for boys founded in 1937.
Water Supply The village had many nearby springs which provided it with drinking water.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
No settlements on village lands

Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on the western edge of the al-Hula Plain, on the lower, rocky slopes of Mount 'Amil. It stood on the west side of a highway that ran from the city of Tiberias to the northernmost Palestinian village, al-Mutilla. The village had many springs that provided drinking water. A boys' elementary school opened its doors in al-Buwayziyya in 1937. The people of al-Buwayziyya, who were predominantly Muslim, earned their livelihood from agriculture and tilled a relatively large amount of land. Although they grew mainly citrus and other fruits, grain and vegetables were also cultivated. In 1944/45 a total of 2,770 dunums were allocated to cereals, and 56 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Jewish forces captured al-Buwayziyya on 11 May 1948, during the assault on eastern Galilee known as Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-district). Israeli historian Benny Morris indicates that al-Buwayziyya's residents fled when they learned that the neighboring village of al-Khalisa, 5 km to the north, had fallen. That village had been evacuated after the Haganah turned down the villagers' request for an 'agreement.' In the absence of such an accommodation, both villages presumably anticipated a direct attack. The villagers probably were also influenced by the fall of Safad on the same day, an event that undermined morale in the villages of the sub-district. [M:123]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands.

Village Today

On the site where al-Buwayziyya once stood are the remains of destroyed houses, a few walls and terraces, and the (intact) concrete roof of one house. The flat portions of the surrounding lands are used by Israelis for agriculture; the more hilly lands serve as pasture.

Source

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

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