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Welcome To al-Dirdara - الدردارة (א-דרדארה)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago
العربية

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Picture for al-Dirdara Village - Palestine: : جواميس حول بحيرة الحولة، ويظهر في الصورة مزارعون في مواسم الحصاد، عام 1946.
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 1, 1948
Distance From District 13 (km) East of Safad
Elevation 75 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #58 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 Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village has been completely obliterated
Ethnically Cleansing al-Dirdara was ethnically cleansed as a result of psychological warfare conducted on late April 1948.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 4,443
Jewish 1,829
Public 89
**Total 6,361
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Population
Year Population*
1945 100
1948 360
Est. Refugees 1998 2,208
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Near By Townswhat's new
Hulah Lake
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al-Dirbashiyya
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Tulayl  ←
al-Dirdara
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Kirad al-Baqqara
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Mansurat al-Khayt
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 No settlements on village lands

Village Before Nakba

The village, located in the middle of a flat plain, faced a mountain range in the east and overlooked the aI-Hula Plain to the north and south. Although most of its houses were made of mud, a few were built of stone. The villagers cultivated the fertile land around the village, especially the area to the south and southwest. Grain, vegetables, citrus, almonds, and figs were the most important agricultural products. In 1944/45 a total of 1,623 dunums was allocated to cereals, and 795 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

It is not clear when al-Dirdara was occupied. It may have fallen during Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-district) in late April or May 1948. At any rate, it was in Israeli hands by early July 1948, at the end of the first truce of the war. The History of the War of Independence states that it served as one of the launching points for Operation Berosh, an attack against a Syrian bridgehead on the Syrian border that the Israeli forces mounted during the Ten Days between the two truces of the war (8-18 July). Syrian forces tried to capture the village shortly after this operation but were forced to withdraw after encountering a minefield and losing at least fifty men, according to the same Haganah account. In the armistice agreement signed between Israel and Syria in July 1949, the village and the area around it were to be demilitarized. By that time, the Israeli settlement of Eyal had already been established on the lands of al-Dirdara.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Eyal (210273), established in 1947 on village land, was destroyed during the 1948 war. After the people of al-Dirdara had been expelled, the Israelis rebuilt the settlement and named it ha-Goverim. They changed its name once more, to Ashmura, in 1953. It is no longer inhabited.

Village Today

The site is a mound of stones and earth, overgrown with trees. There is a canal at the northern edge through which water flows in a north-south direction. The area around the site is cultivated (see photos section).

Source

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