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Welcome To al-Wayziyya - الويزية (אל-ויזיה)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Picture for al-Wayziyya Village - Palestine: : The Shrine Of Shaykh al-Wayzi In 1987
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 1, 1948
Distance From District 8.5 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation 250 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #56 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 exception of al-Shaykh al-Wayzi shrine.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Wayziyya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 0
Jewish 3,673
Public 153
**Total 3,826
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 0 62
Planted W/ Cereal 0 3,611
Arable 0 3,673
Non-Arable 153 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1945 100
1948 116
Est. Refugees 1998 712
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Near By Townswhat's new
Marus
          ↖
al-Husayniyya
↑
(N)
Kirad al-Ghannama
↗        
Qabba'a  ←
al-Wayziyya
→   Yarda
↓
al-Muntar, Khirbat
Shrines / Maqams A shrine for a local sage known by al-Shaykh al-Wayzi.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 The settlement Machanayim is nearby village lands

Village Before Nakba

The village was situated in an area underlain by volcanic rocks that sloped toward the al-Hula Plain to the north. A secondary road linked al-Wayziyya to a highway leading to Safad and Tiberias. A shrine for a Shaykh al-Wayzi lay about 0.5 km from the site; to the west of the shrine there was a stone quarry. The bulk of the villagers were Bedouin, who earned their livelihood from animal husbandry, and to a smaller extent from crop cultivation.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The capture of al-Wayziyya occurred in April or May 1948, within the scope of Operation Yiftah. Nearby Mughr al-Khayt (200266) was hit by mortars on 2 May, while villages to the north were evacuated in late April in anticipation of a Haganah attack. It probably fell some time before the final assault on Safad on 10 May, as Zionist forces pushed into the city's hinterland before encircling and occupying it. [M:102–5, 120–24]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands. Zionists established the settlement of Machanayim (203266) in 1939, 1.5 km southeast of the village site.

Village Today

The shrine of Shaykh al-Wayzi is the only remaining landmark. Rubble from destroyed houses is scattered over the site. Grasses, together with Christ's-thorn, eucalyptus, and pine trees, grow on the surrounding land, which is used by Israelis primarily as pasture.

Source

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