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Welcome To Zalafa, Khirbat - خربة زلفة (ח'ירבת זלפה)

District of Tulkarm
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date April 15, 1948
Distance From District 15 (km) Northwest of Tulkarm
Elevation 25 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #3 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 Khirbat Zalafa was completely obliterated
Ethnically Cleansing Zalafa, Khirbat inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 6,865
Jewish 617
Public 231
**Total 7,713
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 38 0
Irrigated & Plantation 6 109
Planted W/ Cereal 6,798 505
Built up 3 0
Arable 6,842 614
Non-Arable 251 3
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 63
1945 210
1948 244
Est. Refugees 1998 1,496
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Near By Townswhat's new
Raml Zayta
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Jatt
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Wadi al-Hawarith  ←
Zalafa, Khirbat
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Kh. al-Manshiya
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Qaqun
Inhabitants Place of Origin The people who founded the village originally migrated from the nearby village of 'Attil, Tulkarm (currently, in the occupied West Bank).
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 No Israeli Jewish settlements on village lands.
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a small, slightly elevated hill in the middle of a wide plain. It was linked by secondary roads to neighboring villages, as well as to 'Attil, the 'mother' village. Originally, the people of Khirbat Zalafa came from 'Attil to farm the village lands; they gradually settled in the village so that they could be closer to their farms. In the late nineteenth century, Khirbat Zalafa was described as a small hamlet with springs to the south. [SWP (1881) II:153] The village had a small core of houses but many of the village dwellings were scattered throughout the agricultural lands. Agriculture was based on watermelons, vegetables, grain, and olives. In 1944/45 a total of 38 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 6,798 dunums were allotted to cereals; 6 additional dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The Haganah command considered the coastal area north of Tel Aviv to be 'the core of the emergent Jewish state,' and decided to 'secure' it before 15 May 1948, by depopulating it of its Arab inhabitants. During early April a series of expulsion orders were issued to the communities that remained. About mid-April, Haganah representatives reached an agreement with the villagers of Khirbat Zalafa to the effect that, if they left, local Zionist settlements would safeguard their property and allow them to return to their homes after the war. Israeli historian Benny Morris states that they 'may have been pressured to leave.' At the end of that month and in early May, the houses of the village (as well as a number of others) were systematically destroyed by the Haganah, assisted by the local Zionist settlements. No information is given about what happened to the village land. [M:118-19]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land.

Village Today

The village has been completely levelled. Both the original site and the surrounding lands are covered with Israeli citrus orchards.

Source

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