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Welcome To al-Ras al-Ahmar - الرأس الأحمر (א-ראס אל-אחמר)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Occupation Date October 30, 1948
Distance From District 8.5 (km) North of Safad
Elevation 825 (meters)
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Map Location See location #42 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Hiram
Attacking Units The terror gangs of Sheva' (Seventh) Brigade (committed several massacres in the upper Galili)
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village has been mostly destroyed, and few houses remain which are being occupied and renovated by Jewish settlers.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Ras al-Ahmar inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 7,931
Jewish 0
Public 3
**Total 7,934
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 1,008
Olive Groves 350
Planted W/ Cereal 4,728
Built up 61
Arable 5,736
Non-Arable 2,137
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 418
19th century 150
1922 405
1931 447
1945 620
1948 719
Est. Refugees 1998 4,417
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 92
1948 147
Near By Townswhat's new
Fara
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Kafr Bir'im  ←
al-Ras al-Ahmar
→   Rihaniya
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Taytaba
Schools The village had an elementary school for boys, which was founded during the British Mandate period.
Places of Warship al-Ras al-Ahmar contained mosaics and wine presses with tessellated floors, which all provided evidence that the site was inhabited in the classical or Byzantine periods.
Water Supply A spring on the north side of the village site supplied the villagers with water for domestic uses.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Kerem Ben Zimra
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on the flat summit of al-Ras al-Ahmar ('the red peak'). An unpaved road that linked it to Safad also went through the village of Taytaba to the south. Another unpaved road, branching off from the Safad-Kafr Bir'im road, linked it to Taytaba also, as well as al-Rihaniyya in the north. In 1596, al-Ras al-Ahmar was a village in the nahiya of Jira (liwa' of Safad), with a population of 418. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and ervil (ervilia), as well as on other types of produce and property, such as goats, beehives, vineyards, and a press that was used for processing either olives or grapes. [Hut. and Abd.:175] In the late nineteenth century, travelers described al-Ras al-Ahmar as a stone village situated on a high hill on which the villagers maintained gardens. The village population was estimated to be between 150 and 350. [SWP (1881) I:199] Because of the steep slopes to the north, east, and west of the village, any new building had to be constructed to the south.

All of the village residents were Muslim. AI-Ras al-Ahmar had a boys' elementary school that was founded during the British Mandate. A spring on the north edge of the site supplied the villagers with water for domestic use. Citrus and other fruit trees were grown on village lands, primarily on those lying to the north. In the 1942/43 season 350 dunums were planted with olive trees, which were concentrated in the northwest, southwest and southeast. In 1944/45 a total of 4,728 dunums was allocated to cereals and 1,008 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Relics in al-Ras al-Ahmar, such as mosaics and wine presses with tessellated floors, provided evidence that the site was inhabited in the classical or Byzantine period

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The village was attacked by Israeli forces on 30 October 1948. Israeli historian Benny Morris implies that the residents fled when they heard of the massacres perpetrated the night before at Safsaf (see Safsaf, Safad sub-disctrict) and Jish. Al-Ras al-Ahmar lies just north of those two villages and was captured by units of the Sheva' (Seventh) Brigade during Operation Hiram (see 'Arab al-Samniyya, Acre sub-district). When the Brigade units, which committed a number of atrocities during the operation, reached al-Ras al-Ahmar, they found it empty of its inhabitants, according to Israeli reports quoted by Morris. The villagers probably went to Lebanon, like most of the population of the northern Galilee. Israeli forces operating in the area continued to advance into Lebanese territory. The New York Times reported in the first week of November that Israeli units had occupied some fifteen Lebanese villages, some as much as 10 km inside Lebanese territory. By May 1949, the empty village had been renamed Kerem Ben Zimra and was being readied to receive new Jewish immigrants.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

In 1949, Israel established the settlement of Kerem Ben Zimra (194271) on village land just to the east, if not on top of, the village site.

Village Today

Some houses still remain. One house has a front stairway, and a covered garage that apparently was added by the Israelis who live there. Another house has two high, arched windows. The site also contains stone rubble from destroyed houses, and a few fig trees and cacti. The nearby settlement cultivates some of the surrounding land and uses the rest for grazing

Source

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