Khirbat Al-Dumun
Template:Infobox former Arab villages in Palestine
Al-Dumun was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948. It was located 10.5 km southeast of Haifa.
History
A known cave located in the area was used as a sheep fold. Flints artefacts from the cave had been dated to the Neolithic period.[1]
In 1881 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine noted at Duweimin “foundations."[2]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al Damun had a population of 19 Muslims,[3] while in the 1931 census, it was counted under Isfiya.[4]
In 1945 the village had a population of 340 Muslims,[5] and the total land area was 2,797 dunams.[6] Of this, 5 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 280 were for plantations and irrigable land, 1,619 for cereals,[7] while 893 dunams were non-cultivable land.[8]
1948, aftermath
At the end of April, 1948, the villagers surrounded without a fight, and the village was garrisoned by the Haganah. The villagers were, at first, allowed to stay.[9] Morris notes that part of the document stating this has been blacked out by the IDF censors, presumably, according to Morris, as the writer have suggested that the villagers were to be expelled.[10]
In 1992, the remains were described: "All that remains from the village is a building now used as a prison. Cactuses and few remaining fruit trees, such as pomegranate and almond trees, grown on the site. The land is forested and the area is currently used by Israelis for recreation."[1]
References
- ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 159
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 303
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-District of Haifa, p. 33
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 92
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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Hadawi48was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 91
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 141
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. 209, note 305
- ^ Note 305, Morris, 2004, p. 283
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- 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.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
- Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
External links
- Welcome To al-Damun, Khirbat
- Khirbat al-Damun, Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 5: IAA, Wikimedia commons
