Lazzaza

Coordinates: 33°12′21″N 35°36′42″E / 33.20583°N 35.61167°E / 33.20583; 35.61167
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Lazzaza
لزّازة
Village
Etymology: “fastening”,[1]
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Geopolitical entity
Mandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 21, 1948[4]
Area
 • Total1,586 dunams (1.586 km2 or 392 acres)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total230[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationWhispering campaign
Current LocalitiesBeit Hillel.

Lazzaza (

Safad.[5] Beit Hillel
subsequently expanded onto the land.

History

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Lazzaza, while under Ottoman rule, as a village of 70 people built of adobe bricks and situated on a plain near a river.[6]

British Mandate era

It was incorporated into the

Muslims, took advantage of the village's fertile lands, and agriculture became the basis of its economy. The primarily cultivated crops were onions, corn, and fruits, but the beehives were also kept, in addition to some livestock. Some of Lazzaza's inhabitants also fished in the Hasbani River.[5]

In the 1931 census of Palestine the population of Lazaza was 176, all Muslims, in a total of 39 houses.[7]

In the

Jewish settlement of Beit Hillel which together constituted a population of 330; 230 were Muslims of Lazzaza, the remaining 100 were Jewish of Beit Hillel.[2][3]

Types of land use in dunams in the village in 1945:[8][9]

Land Usage Arab Jewish
Irrigated and plantation 235 805
Cereal 95 119
Cultivable 330 924
Urban 27 18
Non-cultivable 20 0

The land ownership of the village before occupation in dunams:[3]

Owner Dunams
Arab 377
Jewish 942
Public 267
Total 1,586

1948, aftermath

The Arabs of Lazzaza fled their village during the

1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 21, 1948.[4] The village was not attacked by Israeli forces, and the probable cause of its depopulation was a "whispering campaign" devised by Palmach commander Yigal Allon during Operation Yiftach, in which rumor would spread about massive Jewish reinforcements approaching the Galilee. According to Walid Khalidi, "only a few scattered houses remain on the village site", and that the residents of Beit Hillel cultivate the surrounding fields.[5]

See also

  • Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel

References

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 29
  2. ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
  3. ^ a b c Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70
  4. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #8. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  5. ^ a b c Khalidi, 1992, p.469.
  6. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 89. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p.469.
  7. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 108
  8. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 119
  9. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 169

Bibliography

External links

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