Mansurat al-Khayt

Coordinates: 32°58′15″N 35°36′58″E / 32.97083°N 35.61611°E / 32.97083; 35.61611
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Mansurat al-Khayt
منصورة الخيط
Mansurat al Kheit[1]
Village
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Kfar Hanassi?[4] However, Khalidi writes that it is on the land of Tuba[5]

Mansurat al-Khayt was a

1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on January 18, 1948. It was located 11.5 km east of Safed, 1 km west of the Jordan River
.

History

Part of the name, al-Khayt, came from the area named as ard al-khayt, located southwest of the

lake of Hula.[6]

Irak in the matter of its rice, its birds, its hot springs, and excellent crops."[7]

In the mid 18th century, The Syrian Sufi teacher and traveller al-Bakri al-Siddiqi (1688-1748/9) noted that he passed by al-Khayt with a judge from

Safad.[5]

British Mandate era

In the

Muslims,[8] increasing in the 1931 census when Mansurat el Hula had to 367 Muslims inhabitants, in a total of 61 houses.[9]

In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 200 Muslims,[2] with 6,735 dunams of land, all of which was publicly owned.[3] Of this, 5,052 dunams were used for cereals,[10] while 17 dunams were classified as built-up, public areas.[11]

The village was also known by Mansurat al-Hula to distinguish it from al-Mansura in Safed and had a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh Mansur from which the village was named after.

1948, aftermath

The village was temporarily evacuated after a Haganah attack on 18 January 1948. The Haganah was under order to "eliminate" anyone in the village who resisted.[12] It was noted that "houses and shacks were set alight" during the attack.[13]

In July 1948, a new settlement called Habonim, later renamed

Kfar Hanassi, went up on the land of Mansurat al-Khayt.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #59. Also gives cause of depopulation
  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. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, settlement #13.
  5. ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 475
  6. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 341, cited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 474
  7. ^ Al-Dimashqi, 1866, p. 211 cited in le Strange, 1890, p. 484
  8. ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 42
  9. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 108
  10. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 120
  11. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 170
  12. ^ Morris, 2004, p. 132, note #539, on p. 160
  13. ^ Morris, 2004, p. 344, note #13, p. 396
  14. ^ Morris, 2004, p. 374, note #191, p. 406

Bibliography

  • Al-Dimashqi (1866). Cosmographie (in Arabic). Translated by A. F. Mehren. Saint-Pétersbourg: l'Académie Impriale des Sciences.
  • 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, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • 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
    .
  • Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
  • 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.

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