Sajad

Coordinates: 31°47′01″N 34°53′34″E / 31.78361°N 34.89278°E / 31.78361; 34.89278
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For the Romanian village of Şiad, called Sajád in Hungarian, see Craiva.

Sajad
Village
Remains of Sajad Railway platform.
Remains of Sajad Railway platform.
Etymology: Kh. es Sejed, the ruin of adoration [1]
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Geopolitical entity
Mandatory Palestine
SubdistrictRamle
Date of depopulation1948[4]
Area
[3]
 • Total2,795 dunams (2.795 km2 or 1.079 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total370[2][3]
Current LocalitiesIsraeli military zone

Sajad (

1948 Arab–Israeli war.[6]

History

In 1838, Sejad was noted as a place "in ruins or deserted."[7]

The village of Sajad was the site of a railway station built by the French in Ottoman era Palestine. In August 1892, the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway service was initiated; the train stopped in Sajad.[8][9] The station was closed after a new railway line and station were built at nearby Wadi Sarar in 1915.[10]

The land which the villagers cultivated, was at one time owned by the

jiftlik land, owned by the government but leased on a long-term basis to the villagers.[11]

British Mandate era

In the

Muslims,[12] increasing in the 1931 census to 300, still all Muslims, in a total of 66 houses.[13]

The village did not have a school on its own, but in 1945–46 it started sending its students to a school in Qazaza, a village to the southeast.[14]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 370, all Muslims,[2] while the total land area was 2,795 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[3] Of this, a total of 1,687 dunums of land were used for cereals,[15] while 19 dunams were classified as built-up public areas.[16]

1948 and after

A military operation planned by the pre-state Israeli forces against the village of Sajad as part of Operation Nahshon is recorded in a document from the Nahshon Headquarters to the 52nd Battalion, dated 15 April 1948.[17] According to Benny Morris, "Battalion 3 was ordered to annihilate and destroy the village of Sajad."[17] According to Khalidi the village was taken on 9–10 July as part of the Givati Brigade's Operation An-Far.[6]

There are

traitors, sometimes I get so depressed about it, I do not even want to talk to my children about what happened to my village Sajad in Palestine ... I prefer to live in a tent in my homeland than a castle anywhere else ... because I will always feel that the castle is not really mine."[18]

According to Walid Khalidi, the site of the former village of Sajad is inaccessible, as it is now a military zone in Israel.[6]

See also

  • Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel

References

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 271
  2. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
  3. ^ a b c Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 68
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #264. Gives "not known" as to date and cause of depopulation.
  5. ^ Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 379
  6. ^ a b c Khalidi, 1992, p. 410
  7. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 120
  8. ^ Rafiq (1990):961. Cited in Khalidi, 1992, p.409
  9. ISSN 0334-4657
    . Retrieved 29 October 2009.
  10. ^ Gilbar, 1990, p. 209
  11. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 409
  12. ^ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p. 21
  13. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 23.
  14. ^ Khalidi, 1992, pp. 405, 410
  15. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 117. Also cited in Khalidi, 1992, p409
  16. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 167
  17. ^ a b Morris, 2004, pp. 235, 293–294
  18. ^ Chatty and Hunt, 2005, p. 96

Bibliography

External links

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