Welcome To al-Dawwara - الدوارة (א-דוארה)

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Occupation Date

May 25, 1948

Distance From District

27 (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 #17 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

Exodus Cause

Haganah 'Wispering' campaign (psychological warfare)

Village Temains

The village has been completely destroyed, and only house walls and rubble left behind.

Ethnically Cleansing

al-Dawwara was ethnically cleansed as a result of psychological warfare conducted on the 25th of May 1948

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	2,547
Jewish	2,573
Public	170
**Total	5,470

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves	68	0
Irrigated & Plantation	2,135	2,095
Planted W/ Cereal	281	603
Built up	52	55
Arable	2,484	2,698
Non-Arable	181	0

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1931	552
1945	1,100 (400 Jewish)
1948	812 (400 Jewish)
Est. Refugees 1998	4,987

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	106
1948	155

Nearby Wadies & Rivers

The village bordered three rivers that flowed into lake al-Hula: the al-Hasbani, Banyas, and Dan rivers

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Kibbutz 'Amir and Sde Nechemya

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on flat terrain, overlooking a broad expanse to the north, and faced Mount Hermon (Jabal al-Shaykh) to the northeast. It was near the confluence of three rivers that flowed into Lake aI-Hula: the al-Hasbani, Banyas, and Dan rivers. A secondary road linked it to a highway that led to Safad. In 1931, the entire population was Muslim except for one Christian; no exact breakdown is available for 1945, but the population was predominantly Muslim. AI-Dawwara's older houses were clustered together, separated by narrow alleys; toward the end of the Mandate, the village expanded and newer houses were built further apart. Although most of the houses were made of mud, some were built of basalt stones. The residents worked chiefly in agriculture, growing grain, vegetables, and citrus; their crops were either watered by rainfall or irrigated from springs and rivers. In 1944/45 a total of 68 dunums were devoted to citrus and bananas, and 281 dunums were allocated to cereals; 2,135 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Al-Dawwara is listed in an Israeli military intelligence report as one of the villages whose inhabitants fled on 25 May 1948, as a result of a 'whispering campaign' conceived by Palmach commander Yigal Allon and implemented during Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-district). However, the discrepancy between the date of flight cited by Morris (25 May) and the date that the whispering campaign was launched (10 May) indicates that a military attack on the village may have played a role in the evacuation. [M:122-23]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Kibbutz 'Amir (208287) was established in 1939, 0.5 km west of the site, and that of Sde Nechemya (208288) in 1940, northwest of the site. Both are on village land.

Village Today

There are hardly any traces of the village left; only a few building stones at the edge of a fish pond remain on the site. The entire area has been converted into a fish hatchery.

Source

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

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