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Welcome To Zarnuqa - زرنوقة (זרנוקה)

District of al-Ramla
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Occupation Date May 27, 1948
Distance From District 10 (km) Southwest of al-Ramla
Elevation 50 (meters)
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Map Location See location #34 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Barak
Attacking Units Giv'ati Brigade
Exodus Cause Expulsion by Zionist troops
Village Temains In June 1948, Zarnuqa was mostly destroyed with the exception of few houses remain standing.
Ethnically Cleansing Zarnuqa inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 5,640
Jewish 1,578
Public 327
**Total 7,545
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 2,070 1,015
Irrigated & Plantation 1,189 13
Olive Groves 10 0
Planted W/ Cereal 2,266 493
Built up 68 0
Arable 5,525 1,521
Non-Arable 374 57
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1931 1,952
1945 2,620 (240 Jewish)
1948 2,761 (240 Jewish)
Est. Refugees 1998 16,954
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 414
1948 585
Near By Townswhat's new
al-Qubayba
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Zionist Colonies
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Tall al-Batteikh
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Zarnuqa
→   'Aqir
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Yibna
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al-Maghar
Schools Two elementary schools: the 1st was an elementary school for boys which was founded in 1924, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of 252 boys; the 2nd schools was for girls which was founded in 1943, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of 45 girls.
Town's Notable People Zarnuqa is famous for its Shikaki brothers: Fathi (Islamic Jihad founder) who was assasinated by the Israeli Mossad in Malta in 1995, and Khalil who is a leading political scientist currently residing in the occupied West Bank.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Zarnuqa, city Rakhovot, Gan Shelomo, Gibton, & Giv'at Brenner.
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on flat land on the central coastal plain, linked by a secondary road to a highway that led to Ramla. In the late nineteenth century, Zarnuqa was a village built of adobe bricks with gardens and cactus hedges around it. All of the people living in Zarnuqa were Muslims. The village was laid out in a trapezoidal shape, with the western side making up the long base of the trapezoid. Construction proceeded at a fast pace in the final years of the Mandate as a result of the economic boom. Zarnuqa had a clinic and a boys' primary school that was founded in 1924; in 1942 it became a full elementary school, and had an enrollment of 252 pupils by the mid-1940s. It offered students training in agronomy, including the raising of poultry and bee-keeping, on a 6-dunum land annex. A girls' elementary school was established in 1943, with an initial enrollment of sixty-five students.

The main pillar of the village economy was agriculture, which was based on fruit, especially citrus, cultivation. Citrus and other fruit trees ringed Zarnuqa on all sides and were irrigated from wells; the trees were most numerous in the north and northwest, where the wells had been bored. In 1944/ 45 a total of 2,070 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 2,266 dunums were allocated to cereals; 1,189 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. A weekly market was held in the village on Saturdays and served as an outlet for merchants from Jaffa, Lydda, and Ramla.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Israeli troops from the Giv'ati Brigade occupied the 'semi-abandoned' village on 27 May 1948, during Operation Barak (see al-Batani al-Gharbi, Gaza sub-disctrict), according to Israeli historian Benny Morris. The atrocities committed at Zarnuqa were recorded in a letter to the Israeli left-wing Mapam party newspaper, 'Al ha-Mishmar. The writer had been briefed by a participant:

The soldier told me how one of the soldiers opened a door and fired a Sten at an old man, an old woman, and a child in one burst, how they took the Arabs … out of all the houses and stood [them] in the sun all day-in thirst and hunger until they surrendered 40 rifles ... The Arabs claimed that they hadn't [weapons, and] in the end they were expelled from the village towards Yibna.

At the time, 'Israeli sources' were quoted by the New York Times as saying that Zarnuqa and al-Qubayba were occupied in a four-hour battle. Morris writes that the village 'had traditionally been friendly to the Yishuv,' but that nevertheless, troops and farmers from neighboring settlements ransacked its houses after it was occupied. The village was eventually destroyed outright in June.

In August, the nearby Kvutzat (Kibbutz) Schiller applied to the Jewish settlement authorities for the lands of Zarnuqa 'to be transferred into our hands in perpetuity as a supplement to our land allocation.' Morris does not say whether this request was granted, but he indicates that by 27 May 1949, new immigrants were settled at the site of the destroyed village.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

In late 1948 the settlement of Zarnoqa (130143) was established on the village site. It is now a neighborhood on the outskirts of Rechovot (132145), which had been founded in 1890. The settlement of Gan Shelomo (131142), which was originally established in 1927, later expanded onto village lands. Gibton (131144), built in 1933, and Giv'at Brenner (131141), built in 1928, have also spread onto village lands and are merging with the suburbs of Rechovot.

Village Today

The site, on which mulberry trees and cactuses grow, is dominated by the houses of the Israeli settlements. There are mulberry trees and cactuses. The few houses that remain are either occupied by Jewish inhabitants or fenced in and used for storage. One of the fenced-in houses is made of concrete and has a wide, roofed porch with two columns supporting the rafters. The surrounding lands are used by the settlements for agriculture.

Source

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