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Welcome To Umm Khalid - ام خالد (אום ח'אלד)

District of Tulkarm
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Occupation Date March 20, 1948
Distance From District 15 (km) West of Tulkarm
Elevation 25 (meters)
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Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #9 on the map

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Military Operation Coastal Clearing
Exodus Cause Fear of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting
Village Temains Umm Khalid was mostly destroyed with the exception of few houses remain standing. Currently, these houses are being occupied by Jewish settlers from the nearby Israeli City of Natanya.
Ethnically Cleansing Umm Khalid inhabitants were intimidated into fleeing by the Haganah on March 20th, 1948.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 1,923
Jewish 882
Public 89
**Total 2,894
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 47 0
Planted W/ Cereal 1,830 882
Built up 23 0
Arable 1,877 882
Non-Arable 112 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 307
1931 586
1945 970
1948 1,125
Est. Refugees 1998 6,910
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses In (1931): 131 (includes 'Arab al-Balawina)
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Zionist Colonies
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Wadi al-Hawarith
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Natanya  ←
Umm Khalid
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Bayyarat Hannun
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Qalansiwa
Schools Umm Khalid had an elementary school for boys.
Places of Warship One Mosque
Archeological Sites Umm Khalid contains archeological remains of towers, fortresses, wells, reservoirs, cisterns, and pottery.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 The Israeli City of Netanya.
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Village Before Nakba

The village was located on a sandstone hill less than 2 km east of the Mediterranean shore. The Tulkarm-Netanya highway passed south of it. Flint tools found around the site suggest that the area might have been inhabited since prehistoric times. The village site contained the Lombard Castle of Roger that was built by the Crusaders. Umm Khalid was razed by the troops of Napoleon in 1799 during their return to Egypt, after they had failed to occupy the city of Acre in northern Palestine. In the nineteenth century, Umm Khalid was a rest area between al-Tantura (Haifa sub-disctrict) and Ra's al-'Ayn, a village in the Jaffa sub-disctrict on the al-'Awja River, where Ottoman officials stopped and received dignitaries. [[D 3/2:311]] In 1856 M. Rogers described Umm Khalid as a flourishing village, and noted the extensive melon gardens west of the village. [[Rogers 1862:344-45]]

The village was rectangular and extended in a north-south direction. Its houses were built of stone and mud and were crowded together, separated by narrow alleys. The village was endowed with fertile soil and plentiful underground water. At the village center was a mosque, an elementary school for boys, and four shops for groceries and fabrics. Its residents were predominantly Muslim; many of them had come from other villages in the sub-district seeking work in agriculture. Agriculture, the economic mainstay of the village, was based on watermelons, citrus, vegetables, and grain. In 1944/45 a total of 47 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 1,830 dunums were planted in cereals. The villagers also raised livestock and processed dairy products. Archaeological findings around the village included the remains of towers, fortresses, wells, reservoirs, cisterns, and pottery.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

According to an Israeli military intelligence report, Umm Khalid was evacuated on 20 March 1948, out of a general sense of fear. Israeli historian Benny Morris states that a number of villages in the area suffered the same fate, as attacks increased on villages north of Tel Aviv in the early weeks of the war. This coastal area was the site of a heavy concentration of Jewish settlements and was regarded by the Zionist leadership as the core of the planned Jewish state. In their view it was therefore desirable that Arab residents be made to leave before 15 May. [[M:52-54]]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Much of the village land has been engulfed by the suburbs of the city of Netanya (136192), originally founded in 1929. The settlements of Gan Chefer, founded in 1940, and Nira, founded in 1941, were merged in 1953 to form a single, large settlement, Sha'ar Chefer (140193); this settlement covers part of the village lands. [[P:133, 184, 235, 243]]

Village Today

The village site has become part of the city of Netanya. Some houses remain and are used either as residences or for commercial purposes such as warehouses for Israeli companies. The lands in the vicinity are planted in citrus trees.

Source

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