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Welcome To al-Farradiyya - الفراضية (אל-פראדיה)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date February 1, 1949
Distance From District 8 (km) South West of Safad
Elevation 375 (meters)
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Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #71 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Hiram
Attacking Units Golani Brigade
Exodus Cause Expulsion by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed, and only house walls and rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Farradiyya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Terminating Refugee Camps Many of the refugees were scattered in Tel al-Za'tar, Shatila, Sabra, Ayn al-Hilwah, and Meiyah Ew-Meiyah refugee camps in Lebanon, and few became internal refugees in the upper Galilee, occupied Palestine.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 15,228
Jewish 0
Public 4,519
**Total 19,747
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 1,182
Olive Groves 703
Planted W/ Cereal 4,183
Built up 25
Arable 5,365
Non-Arable 14,357
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 237
19th century 150
1922 362
1931 465
1945 670
1948 777
Est. Refugees 1998 4,773
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 101
1948 168
Near By Townswhat's new
Bayt Jann
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Mirun
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al-Sammu'i
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'Ayn al-'Asad  ←
al-Farradiyya
→   al-Shuna
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Kafr 'Inan
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Maghar
Town's Name Through History The Romans referred to the village by Parod
Schools The village had an elementary school for boys.
Shrines / Maqams A shrine for a local religious teacher known by al-Shaykh Mansour
Water Supply Springs that originated from Mount al-Jarmaq (al-Shaykh) provided al-Farradiyya with plenty of fresh water supplies, and enough running water to power several water mills.
Archeological Sites The village contained the ruins of water mills and an aqueduct
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Qaddarim, Shefer, and Parod
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on the southern slope of Mount Zabud. The Nazareth-Safad highway passed just to the north of it. Al-Farradiyya may have been built on the site of a village known during the Roman period as Parod, The Arab geographer al-Maqdisi (d. 985), referred to it as al-Farradhiyya and described it as a large village, renowned for its groves of fruit trees and grapes, located in a pleasant area with plentiful water. [[Cited in D 6/2:181; al-Khalidi 1968:174]] In 1596, al-Farradiyya was a village in the nahiya of Jira (liwa' of Safad) with a population of 237. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, olives, and fruits, as well as on other types of produce and property, such as goats, beehives and pasturelands. [[Hut. and Abd.:177]] In the late nineteenth century, al-Farradiyya was a village built of stone and situated on a plain. The village residents, who numbered about 150, tilled small gardens and grew figs and olives. [[SWP (1881) 1:203]] Al-Farradiyya's population was predominantly Muslim. The village had a boys' elementary school. Springs that issued from Mount al.Jarmaq, to the north, provided an ample water supply.

AI-Farradiyya had a thriving agricultural sector. It was known for its model, experimental farm, which covered 300 dunums of land. The farm was founded to improve the varieties of apples, figs, grapes, apricots, pears, and almonds, and to develop new seed varieties. It had an arboretum where 2,000 plants were grown and distributed to peasants. It also provided extension services for the farmers from both the Acre and Safad sub-districts and gave them advice on poultry production methods and beekeeping. The station was supervised by a Palestinian agronomist who had done his graduate studies at Montpelier University in France, and had begun to work at the station in 1932. Apart from the station, a number of water-powered mills were to be found in the village vicinity. In 1944/45 a total of 4,147 dunums was allocated to cereals and 1,182 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. AI-Farradiyya was the site of a shrine (maqam) for a local religious teacher, al-Shaykh Mansur, and there are ruins of mills and an aqueduct.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

People from neighboring villages (mainly 'Akbara and al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta) took refuge in al-Farradiyya in early May, as they fled out of the path of Operation yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-disctrict), according to testimony by the villagers of 'Akbara. The History of the War of Independence implies that the village did not come under Israeli control until 30 October 1948, during Operation Hiram (see 'Arab al-Samniyya, Acre sub-disctrict). It was probably one of several villages occupied when various forces executed a pincer maneuver to occupy a pocket in central Galilee, west of Safad. It apparently was not attacked directly. However, as units of the Golani Brigade advanced northwards from 'Aylabun (some 10 km to the south of al-Farradiyya) towards Sa'sa' (about 10 km to the north), the village was surrounded by Israeli forces on all sides. Since it did not suffer a direct assault, many of its residents seem to have remained in their homes until February 1949, when the final assault on the village began. [[N:43–45; see T:324–25]]

In December 1948 and January 1949, top Israeli officials increasingly supported a plan to expel the villagers. Minority Affairs Minister Bechor Shitrit argued for expulsion on the pretext of preventing 'infiltration' of refugees back to the village. Israeli historian Benny Morris quotes, him as saying that if the infiltrations were not halted, Israel would have to 'conquer the Galilee anew.' Morris adds that the Committee for Transferring Arabs from Place to Place endorsed a proposal on 15 December to expel the 261 remaining inhabitants of al-Farradiyya and Kafr 'Inan (Acre sub-district). This plan was not executed until February. Some villagers were evicted to other villages under Israeli control and others expelled to the Triangle area (Nablus-Tulkarm-Jenin) on the West Bank. [[M:241]]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

In 1949 Israel founded the settlement of Parod (190257) on village land, about 300 m east of the site of the destroyed village. The settlement of Shefer (191260), established in 1950 on village lands, is north of the village site. In 1980 the settlement of Qaddarim (193257) was established to the east of the site, but it was moved to the south-east in 1987.

Village Today

The site is deserted and covered with wild thorns, trees, and piles of stones from the destroyed homes. Cactuses grow on the land around the site, which is mostly utilized for grazing animals. Some segments of it, however, are wooded and serve as Israeli recreation grounds.

Source

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