Welcome To al-Na'ima - الناعمة (א-נאעמה)

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Value

Occupation Date

May 14, 1948

Distance From District

26 (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 #16 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

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-Na'ima was ethnically cleansed as a result of psychological warfare conducted on early May 1948.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	4,450
Jewish	2,414
Public	291
**Total	7,155

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	4,122	2,197
Planted W/ Cereal	156	217
Built up	112	0
Arable	4,278	2,414
Non-Arable	351	0

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1931	858
1945	1,240 (210 Jewish)
1948	1,195 (210 Jewish)
Est. Refugees 1998	7,337

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	174
1948	242

Near By Towns

al-Khalisa ↖	al-Zuq al-Tahtani ↑ (N)
al-Khalisa ←	al-Na'ima	→ Qaytiyya
↙ Hulah Lake	↓ al-Zawiya	↘ al-Salihiyya

Schools

The village had an elementary school for boys.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Ne'ot Mordekhay, Kefar Blum, and Beyt Hillel

Village Before Nakba

The village was located on flat land in the northwest portion of the aI-Hula Plain. A secondary road linked it to the village of al-Khalisa and to a highway leading to Safad and Tiberias. Its population was predominantly Muslim. It had a boys' elementary school. In 1944/45 a total of 156 dunums was allocated to cereals; 4,122 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

AI-Na'ima was emptied of its population during Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-disctrict). One of the main objectives of this operation was to seize control of the city of Safad. The final assault on Safad took place on 10‒11 May 1948, and with the fall of the city, the residents of several villages in the sub-disctrict, already demoralized by psychological warfare and mortar shelling, panicked and left. Al-Na'ima was one of these villages; according to an Israeli intelligence report, its residents left on 14 May. It is likely that Israeli troops entered it shortly afterwards, but there is no account of the village's subsequent fate.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Ne'ot Mordekhay (206285), built in 1946 on village land, is south of the site. North of the village site is the settlement of Beyt Hillel (206290), built in 1940, and to the southeast is Kefar Blum (207286), built some 2 km from the village in 1943 .

Village Today

Apart from a few trees, the site is hardly recognizable as the former location of a village. It has become part of the agricultural land of the plain.

Source

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

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