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Template:Infobox former Arab villages in Palestine

Arab al-Safa (Arabic: عرب الصفا) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan . It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was located 7.5 km south of Baysan.

The village was destroyed on May 20, 1948 by the Israeli Golani Brigade under Operation Gideon.

Demographics

According to a land census report in 1944, land ownership in the village (in dunams) was as follows:

  • Arab 7,549
  • Jewish 2,523
  • Public 2,446
  • Total 12,518[1]

By 1944, a total of 7,449 dunums were used for cereals.[1][2] The Arab population were occupied mainly in cereal farming. The village had a population of 225 in 1922. This had grown to 754 by 1948 with 150 houses.

References

  1. ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p.43
  2. ^ Hadawi, 1979, p. 85

Bibliography

  • Guérin, M. V. (1875): Description Géographique, Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. Samarie, 2 pt. ("Seconde partie -Samarie")("Tome II") (p. 49 )
  • Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center
  • Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
  • Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.