Welcome To al-Dalhamiyya - الدلهمية (א-דלהמיה)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

April 15, 1948

Distance From District

14 (km) South of Tiberias

Elevation

-210 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #25 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Possibly Operation Gideon

Attacking Units

Possibly the Golani Brigade

Exodus Cause

Expulsion by Zionist troops

Village Temains

al-Dalhamiyya was completely obliterated and defaced.

Ethnically Cleansing

al-Dalhamiyya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	1,756
Jewish	746
Public	350
**Total	2,852

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	29	0
Planted W/ Cereal	1,709	672
Arable	1,738	672
Non-Arable	368	74

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1922	352
1931	240
1945	410
1948	476
Est. Refugees 1998	2,921

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	50
1948	99

Near By Towns

	Samakh ↑ (N)
'Awlam ←	al-Dalhamiyya	→ Jordan River
	↓ Jordan River

Nearby Wadies & Rivers

al-Dalhamiyya is situated on the north bank of the Yarmuk River, on the Palestine-Jordan border.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Ashdot Ya'aqov, Ashdot Ya'aqov Me'uchad, and Menachemya.

Village Before Nakba

The village was situated in a shallow depression on the north bank of the Yarmuk River, on the Palestine-Jordan border. A spur linked it to the highway between the al-Majami' bridge and the village of Samakh, and another road linked it to al-Baqura, an adjacent village (presently located in Jordan). Initially, al-Dalhamiyya was located on the eastern bank of the Jordan River, but as Zionist land reclamation projects near Lake Tiberias expanded the villagers were displaced, and so they relocated their village farther east, near the Yarmuk. The American biblical scholar and traveler Edward Robinson was told when he was in Palestine in 1838 that the village lay on the eastern bank of the Jordan. [[Robinson (1841) III:264, fn.1]] The village houses were built mostly of adobe brick, with roofing made of straw and reeds. Its population was predominantly Christian.

Agriculture, the mainstay of al-Dalhamiyya's economic life, was based on vegetables and citrus. Lands to the north and west of the village were endowed with a silt-rich soil that enhanced their fertility. The villagers relied on the Yarmuk River for irrigation. In 1944/45 a total of 1,709 dunums was allocated to cereals; 29 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. On the southwestern outskirts of the village was Khirbat al-Dalhamiyya (203228), a mound of ruins and potsherds.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Details of the occupation of al-Dalhamiyya are unavailable. It was probably captured some time between the attack on Tiberias in mid-April 1948, and the occupation of Baysan and the Baysan Valley in the first half of May. A few nearby villages were occupied at this time in preparation for the 'clearing' of the Baysan Valley. Neighboring Samakh was attacked on 28 April and by 3 May, Zionist settlers in the area told the Jewish National Fund that their surroundings (around the 'Sea of Galilee,' or Lake Tiberias) had been emptied of their Arab inhabitants. According to Israeli historian Benny Morris, these colonists demanded quick action to establish Jewish settlements in the newly depopulated villages

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Zionists established the settlement of Ashdot Ya'aqov (204229) southwest of the village in 1933. Ashdot Ya'aqov Me'uchad (204230), founded in 1933, and Menachemya (202230), founded in 1902, are west of the former village. Although they are close to the village site, none are on village lands.

Village Today

The village has been obliterated. There is a banana grove on the site that belongs to the nearby kibbutz, Ashdot Ya'aqov (see photos section).

Source

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

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