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Welcome To al-Husayniyya - الحسينية (אל-חוסיניה)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date April 21, 1948
Distance From District 11 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation 125 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #43 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
Acts of Terror The massacre of 30 men on the 16th-17th of March 1948 by an unknown Palmach battalion
Exodus Cause Influence of fall of, or exoduce from, neighboring town
Village Temains The village has been completely obliterated, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Husayniyya was mostly ethnically cleansed and terrorized after the massacre committed in March.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 3,556
Jewish 1,753
Public 15
**Total 5,324
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Population
Year Population*
1922 296
1931 274
1945 340
1948 394
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses In (1931): 64 (includes Tulayl)
Near By Townswhat's new
'Arab al-Zubayd
          ↖
al-'Ulmaniyya
↑
(N)
al-Kharrar
↗        
Marus  ←
al-Husayniyya
→   Tulayl
            ↙
Mughr al-Druz
↓
Kirad al-Ghannama
↘           
Kirad al-Baqqara
Schools The village had an elementary school for boys, which was shared with the neighboring village of Tulayl.
Water Supply The village had plenty of underground and surface water from springs, a creek, and artesian wells.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Chulata and Sde Eli'ezer

Village Before Nakba

The village was located on a slightly elevated hill in the southwestern corner of the al-Hula Plain. It stood along the eastern side of a highway that led to Safad and Tiberias. The Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi (d. 1228) noted its ancient buildings and praised one of them, which he claimed had originally been a temple and perhaps was built by Solomon. From each of the twelve openings in the structure, extremely hot but perfectly clear and sweet water poured out, and each jet of water was said to cure a particular disease. AI-Hamawi thought that this place was one of the real wonders of the world. [[Mu’jam, cited in Le Strange 1965:340]] In modern times, the land between the village and Lake al-Hula was cultivated by the al-Zubaydat Bedouin.

In modern times, the land between the village and Lake al-Hula was cultivated by the al-Zubaydat Bedouin. AI-Husayniyya had stone-built houses and an elementary school, which it shared with the neighboring village of Tulayl. The village land was fertile and amply supplied with underground and surface water from springs, a creek, and artesian wells. All of the villagers were Muslims who depended on agriculture for their livelihood. They grew various kinds of fruit, as well as grain, onions, and com, on the lands north of the village. In 1944/45 a total of 3,388 dunums was allocated to cereals and 22 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. The villagers also kept livestock, especially water buffalo, for ploughing, dairy production, and meat.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Al-Husayniyya fell after facing two fierce attacks by the Palmach's Third Battalion in March 1948. In the first raid, on 12 March, the PaImach blew up five houses, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris. A New York Times story said that a party of approximately fifty raiders moved in on the village at 1:40 a.m. on 13 March, and '[u]nder heavy covering fire... blew up twelve houses before withdrawing.' Fifteen Arabs were killed and twenty wounded in the onslaught. The Times added that British police and troops later moved into the neighborhood, imposed a curfew, and evacuated the village. A few days later, on 16-17 March, 'more than 30 Arab adults (excluding women and children) were killed' in another attack on al-Husayniyya, according to a report filed by a Palmach battalion. The total death toll was put at dozens by Israeli sources, and the village was said to have been abandoned by all its residents, who 'fled across the border.'

The massacre was claimed to be in retaliation for a land mine that had been planted to stop Jewish traffic in the area. After the attacks, the British imposed a week-long curfew on roads in the al-Hula region and the inhabitants of al-'Ulmaniyya (3.5 km to the north) and Kirad al-Ghannama (2 km to the southeast) fled, some temporarily. [[M:53, 157; NYT:14/3/48]] Some of the villagers who escaped the massacres may have remained or returned in subsequent days; according to Israeli military intelligence, the residents of al-Husayniyya did not leave until 21 April. Morris writes that their flight was due to either Haganah mortar and ground attacks (which were mounted as part of Operation Yiftach), or fear of such attacks (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-disctrict).

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Chulata (207273), established in 1937, is 3 km east of the site, near Tulayl. Sde Eli'ezer (203272), which was founded in 1952, is about 1 km west of the village site.

Village Today

Only piles of stone and sections of walls from demolished houses remain (see photos). The site itself is overgrown with thorns, grasses, and scattered Christ's-thorn trees, and is used as pasture. The land in the vicinity is cultivated.

Source

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