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Welcome To Hadatha - حدثا (חדת'א)

District of Tiberias
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Occupation Date May 12, 1948
Distance From District 12.5 (km) Southwest of Tiberias
Elevation 225 (meters)
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Attacking Units Golani Brigade
Exodus Cause Abandonment based on Arab orders
Village Temains Hadatha was completely obliterated and defaced.
Ethnically Cleansing Hadatha inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 8,621
Jewish 0
Public 1,689
**Total 10,310
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 199
Olive Groves 226
Planted W/ Cereal 8,379
Built up 38
Arable 8,578
Non-Arable 1,689
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 121
19th century 150
1922 333
1931 368
1945 520
1948 603
Est. Refugees 1998 3,704
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 75
1948 122
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Kafr Sabt
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Ma'dhar  ←
Hadatha
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'Awlam
Schools Hadatha had an elementary school for boys which was founded in 1897 by Ottomans, but it closed its doors during the British Mandate period.
Water Supply Hadatha had a spring to the east which provided the village with its drinking water needs.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Kefar Qish is nearby village lands
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Village Before Nakba

The village, located between two small wadis, was to the east and west of a gently sloping, rocky hill. It was surrounded by a basin fed by numerous wadis that carried runoff down from the surrounding heights and merged to form Wadi al-Bira, a tributary of the Jordan. A spring to the east of the site provided the residents with fresh water. Hadatha was linked by a secondary road to the village of Kafr Kama, itself on a highway leading to Samakh on the southern tip of Lake Tiberias. In 1596, Hadatha was a village in the nahiya of Tiberias (liwa' of Safad) with a population of 121. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat and barley, as well as on other types of property, such as goats and beehives. [[Hut. and Abd.:187]]

In the late nineteenth century, Hadatha was a village built of stone and situated on a hilltop. The 150 residents of the village cultivated grapes, figs, and olives. [[SWP (1881) I:201]] During the British Mandate, the village had a triangular layout, and its houses were spread northwest along the road to Kafr Kama. The people of Hadatha were Sunni Muslims, except for one Christian and one Druze. An elementary school was established in 1897, during the Ottoman period, but it was closed during the British Mandate. Agriculture was based on olives and vegetables. Olive trees were planted mainly in the highlands in the north and east, while vegetables were grown on the lands lying to the east, west, and south. In 1944/45 a total of 8,379 dunums was allocated to cereals; 199 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Hadatha was an archaeological site that contained a vaulted structure built over a spring and the remains of a press.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

There is some inconsistency in the Israeli accounts of the capture of this village. It was one of a cluster of four villages, including Sirin (in Baysan sub-disctrict), 'Awlam, and Ma'dhar (both in Tiberias sub-disctrict), which an Israeli intelligence report claims were evacuated on 6 April 1948, on orders from the Arab Higher Committee. However, the History of the Haganah states that the same four villages were occupied over a month later, on 12 May, by units of the Golani Brigade, adding that 'the inhabitants fled in fear of the Jews.' This implies that the evacuation was a result of the military operation; the account goes on to say that with this attack, 'the lower Galilee was empty of Arabs.'

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land. Zionists established the settlement of Kefar Qish (192230) in 1946 on lands belonging to the nearby village of Ma'dhar.

Village Today

Stone rubble provides the only indication of the village's location. The fenced-in site is used as a cow pasture, and mulberry and fig trees and cactuses grow on it. The surrounding lands are used by the residents of Kefar Qish and are planted in vegetables and almond trees. Parts of the lower wadis are also fenced in.

Source

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