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Welcome To al-Zuq al-Tahtani - الزوق التحتاني (א-זוק א-תחתאני)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 11, 1948
Distance From District 30 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation 100 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #9 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
Exodus Cause Influence of fall of, or exoduce from, neighboring town
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed, and only one house still standing.
Ethnically Cleansing The village has been ethnically cleansed as a result of psychological warfare conducted on the 11th of May 1948.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 9,368
Jewish 1,630
Public 636
**Total 11,634
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 5,547 1,386
Planted W/ Cereal 2,145 223
Built up 39 0
Arable 7,692 1,609
Non-Arable 2,273 21
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
19th century 100
1931 626
1945 1,050
1948 1,218
Est. Refugees 1998 7,480
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 137
1948 266
Near By Townswhat's new
al-Zuq al-Fawqani
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al-Khisas
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al-Khalisa  ←
al-Zuq al-Tahtani
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al-Na'ima
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Qaytiyya
Water Supply The villagers drew water for domestic use from a nearby wadi and also operated several water-powered mills.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Beyt Hillel
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on a hill and faced broad, open areas on all sides; Mount Hermon (Jabal al-Shaykh) loomed in the northeast. A secondary road linked al-Zuq al-Tahtani to a highway that led to Safad and Tiberias, and graded roads connected it to neighboring villages. The etymology of the first part of the name, al-Zuq, has not been established; it may have been derived from the Syriac zuk, meaning 'town.' The second part, al-Tahtani, meant 'lower' in Arabic and distinguished it from al-Zuq al-Fawqani, the 'upper' village, to the northwest. In the late nineteenth century, al-Zuq al-Tahtani was a village built of stone and mud and surrounded by arable land. It had a population of about 100. There were older, ruined Arab houses and a mill on the north side, and a large stream ran near the village. [[SWP (1881) I:90]] The population of al-Zuq al-Tahtani was comprised of 626 Muslims and one Christian in 1931; no exact breakdown is available for 1945, but the population was predominantly Muslim. The villagers drew water for domestic use from a nearby wadi and operated water-powered mills north of the village. They worked mainly in agriculture, cultivating citrus and other fruits, especially on the lands to the south. In 1944/45 a total of 2,145 dunums was allotted to cereals; 5,547 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Al-Zuq al-Tahtani was considered an archaeological site, that is, an artificial mound where building foundations protruded from the surface. Remains of dry stone enclosures and pottery fragments could be found on the surface of the ground.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Israeli military sources claimed in a 1948 report that the villagers of al-Zuq al-Tahtani left their homes on 11 May 1948, under the impact of the fall of Safad the previous day. Israeli historian Benny Morris, who quotes the report, does not indicate whether there was an Israeli attack on the village during the course of Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-disctrict), nor does he state when Israeli forces actually entered the village

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Zionists established the settlement of Beyt Hillel (206290) south of the village in 1940. By 1944, the land occupied by Beyt Hillel had been administratively combined with the lands of a neighboring village, Lazzaza (207290). Subsequent land survey maps, however, show Beyt Hillel on land belonging to al-Zuq al-Tahtani; it lies about 1 km southeast of the village site.

Village Today

Only one house remains; it is made of stone and serves as an office for an airstrip. The grass and wild vegetation that cover the site are mowed. Tall al-Wawiyat (205201) is being excavated at the southern edge of the site, and a fenced-in area, containing a large number of cactuses and tall eucalyptus trees, lies west of the tell. A new airstrip is under construction northeast of the village site.

Source

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