Welcome To Raml Zayta - رمل زيتة (قزازة) (רמל זיתא)

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Occupation Date

March 15, 1948

Distance From District

15 (km) Northeast of Tulkarm

Elevation

25 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #1 on the map

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Military Operation

Coastal Clearing

Exodus Cause

Expulsion by Zionist troops

Village Temains

Raml Zayta was mostly destroyed with the exception of two houses, one of which is currently being occupied by an Israeli Jewish family.

Ethnically Cleansing

Raml Zayta inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	12,720
Jewish	1,453
Public	664
**Total	14,837

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves	126	4
Irrigated & Plantation	27	4
Planted W/ Cereal	12,665	1,441
Arable	12,818	1,449
Non-Arable	566	4

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1931	1,165
1945	140
1948	162
Est. Refugees 1998	997

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Near By Towns

'Arab al-Fuqara' ↖	al-Sarkas, Khirbat ↑ (N)	Baqa al-Gharbiya ↗
	Raml Zayta	→ Jatt
	↓ Zalafa, Khirbat	↘ Wadi al-Hawarith

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Sde Yitzchaq and the Israeli City of Chadera.

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a flat, sandy spot on the central coastal plain. It was linked by a secondary road to the coastal highway, and by dirt paths to neighboring villages. Its houses, built of mud, cement, and stone, were dispersed in no particular pattern; most were built in the middle of farms. The village had some small shops scattered among the houses. The villagers obtained their domestic water from wells, and most of them worked in agriculture and livestock breeding. Agriculture, which was both rainfed and irrigated by water drawn from wells, was based on grain, vegetables, and watermelons. In 1944/45 a total of 126 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 12,554 dunums were allotted to cereals; 27 additional dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. In the eastern part of the village lands lay Khirbat Tall Durur, which had been a prosperous village in the sub-district of Haifa during Ottoman times but which was deserted during the British Mandate as a result of the dispute over the lands of neighboring Wadi al-Hawarith.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The nearest villages for which there is any hard information fell victim to early Haganah operations designed to 'clear' the coastal area in the center of the country (see Khirbat al-Shuna, Haifa sub-district). Nearby Wadi al-Hawarith was attacked and its residents were pressured into leaving on 15 March, while the inhabitants of 'Arab al-Fuqara' were expelled on 10 April following a Haganah General Staff decision to depopulate the village. Raml Zayta probably was depopulated under similar circumstances.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Sde Yitzchaq (149201), founded in 1952, is on village land. The city of Hadera (142204), originally a settlement founded in 1890, has expanded so that some of its suburbs are now on village land.

Village Today

Stone rubble is visible on the site. Only two of the original village houses remain. One of them is still inhabited by the only Palestinian family that stayed in the village. The second house has been renovated and expanded by the addition of new rooms, and is now occupied by a Jewish family. Eucalyptus, fig, mulberry, and pomegranate trees, in addition to cactuses, grow on the site. Vegetables and orchards are grown by Israelis on the village lands.

Source

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

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