Welcome To al-Shuna - الشونة (א-שונה)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

April 30, 1948

Distance From District

6 (km) South of Safad

Elevation

50 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #74 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

Military assault by Zionist troops

Village Temains

The village has been completely destroyed with the exception of two houses

Ethnically Cleansing

al-Shuna inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	3,476
Jewish	0
Public	184
**Total	3,660

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Planted W/ Cereal	1,049
Arable	1,049
Non-Arable	2,611

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1922	83
1931	337
1945	170
1948	197
Est. Refugees 1998	1,211

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	65
1948	65

Near By Towns

al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta ↖	'Akbara ↑ (N)	Jubb Yusuf ↗
al-Farradiyya ←	al-Shuna	→ al-Qudayriyya
	↓ Yaquq	↘ al-Tabigha

Schools

The village had one school

Places of Warship

One mosque

Nearby Wadies & Rivers

The village overlooked the deep gorge of Wadi al-'Amud.

Water Supply

The villagers dug wells at the foot of the hills on the west side to collect rain water for drinking

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

A wildlife sanctuary known by the Nachal 'Amud Reserve

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a hill that overlooked the deep gorge of Wadi al-'Amud, to the northeast of Lake Tiberias. Some of its houses, also, were built on the edge of the wadi, opposite the hill. A number of trails along the wadis linked it to the neighboring villages and khirbas, and a road (constructed after 1947) connected it to highways leading to Safad, Tiberias, and Acre. The Bedouin of the 'Arab al-Sayyad and al-Qudayrat tribes pitched their tents near the eastern edge of the village. AI-Shuna's houses were made of mud and stone and formed a nearly circular pattern. Because the rough bluffs west and southeast of the village hemmed it in from those directions, new housing was built towards the west. Its population was predominantly Muslim. It had a few shops, a mosque, and a school. The villagers dug wells at the foot of the hills on the west side to collect rainwater for drinking. In 1944/45 they planted a total of 995 dunums in cereals. Khirbat al-Shuna, nearby, contained the ruins of a former village, the houses of which were built of basalt; to the south of it lay Khirbat Sirin.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

No definite date is given for the fall of al-Shuna, but its location makes it likely that it came under occupation during Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-district). The village may have been entered in late April-early May, along with several neighboring villages, in preparation for the assault on Safad. There is no record of subsequent events in the village. [See M:120-24]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands.

Village Today

The hill on which the village was built is now fenced in and contains crumbled stone walls from the destroyed houses. In addition, there are two deserted, almost-intact stone houses with arched doors and windows in Wadi al-'Amud. The surrounding lands have been converted into a wildlife sanctuary, the Nachal 'Amud Reserve, which is also used by Israelis for animal grazing and as a recreational area.

Source

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

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