Al-Husayniyya, Safad
Al-Husayniyya
الحسينية Al-Husayniyya | ||
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Village | ||
Etymology: Khirbat Al-Husayniyya: The ruin of el Hasanîyeh, named after Hasan ibn Ali[1] | ||
Geopolitical entity Mandatory Palestine | | |
Subdistrict | Safad | |
Date of depopulation | 21 April 1948[4] | |
Area | ||
• Total | 5,324 dunams (5.324 km2 or 2.056 sq mi) | |
Population (1945) | ||
• Total | 340 (together with Tulayl)[2][3] | |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall | |
Current Localities | Chulata, Sde Eliezer[5] |
Al-Husayniyya (
On 13 May 1948, Haganah paramilitary forces committed a crime by killing more than 30 children and women, which led the rest of the people living in the village to flee and seek shelter in Lebanon and Syria.[6]
Location
The village was located 11 kilometres northeast of Safed, on a slightly elevated hill in the southwestern corner of the al-Hula Plain. It stood along the eastern side of a highway that led to Safad and Tiberias.[7]
History
The Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi noted its ancient buildings and praised one of them, which he claimed had originally been a temple and perhaps was built by Solomon.[6][8]
Ottoman era
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described the place as having "a few ruined cattle-sheds".[9]
In the second half of the 19th century, after the
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the Husainiyeh tribal area had a population of 127; all Muslims,[11] increasing to 274 in the 1931 census; still all Muslims, in a total of 64 houses.[12]
In the
1948, and aftermath
On the night of 12–13 March 1948, a
The settlement of Chulata, established in 1937, is 3 km (2 mi) east of the site, near Tulayl. The settlement of Sde Eliezer is on village land, about 1 km (1 mi) west of the village site.[5]
The
See also
- Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel
- Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine War
References
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 83
- ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 11
- ^ a b c Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine, includes Tuleil
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #36. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ a b c d Khalidi, 1992, p. 457
- ^ a b c Khalidi, 1992, p. 456
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, pp. 455-6
- ^ le Strange, 1890, p.340
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 239
- ^ Abbasi, 2007 (Hebrew). Non-Hebrew version in The Maghreb Review, 28(1), 2003 pp. 41-59.
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 42
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 107
- ^ United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, Appendix B Archived 2012-06-09 at the Wayback Machine, p. 6
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 121 Archived 2018-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. 132, notes # 540, 541, p. 160
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. 344, Note # 15, Palmah HQ to HGS, "Daily Report", 13 Mar. 1948, IDFA 922\\75\\1066 and Palmah HQ to HGS, "Daily Report", 17 Mar. 1948, HA 105\62, p. 396
Bibliography
- Abbasi, Mustafa (2007). "From Algeria to the Holy Land: Algerian communities in the Galilee, from the late Ottoman period to 1948 / הקהילה האלג'יראית בגליל משלהי השלטון העות'מני עד שנת 1948". Horizons in Geography / אופקים בגאוגרפיה (68/69): 56–72. JSTOR 23716446.
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. Archived from the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- 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.
- Strange, le, G. (1890). Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
External links
- Welcome To al-Husayniyya, Palestine Remembered
- al-Husayniyya, Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- al-Husayniyya, Villages of Palestine