Arab al-Nufay'at was a
Palestinian Arab village in the
Haifa Subdistrict
The Haifa subdistrict is one of Israel's sub-districts in Haifa District
Haifa District ( he, מחוז חיפה, ''Mehoz Ḥeifa''; ar, منطقة حيفا) is an administrative district surrounding the city of Haifa, Israel. The district i ...
. It was depopulated during the
1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine
The 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine was the first phase of the 1947–1949 Palestine war. It broke out after the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution on 29 November 1947 recommending the adoption of the Pa ...
on 10 April 1948. It was located 45 km south of
Haifa.
History
The population in the
1945 statistics was 820, all
Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
s,
[ with a total of 8,937 dunams of land; of which 1,471 was public land, the rest owned by Jews.][
In 1945 Mikhmoret was established on village lands, south of the site.]
1948, and after
On 6 April 1948, the Haganah
Haganah ( he, הַהֲגָנָה, lit. ''The Defence'') was the main Zionist paramilitary organization of the Jewish population ("Yishuv") in Mandatory Palestine between 1920 and its disestablishment in 1948, when it became the core of the ...
implemented a new policy for the coastal plains, namely of clearing the whole area of its Arab inhabitants. On 10 April the villagers of Arab al-Nufay'at, together with the villagers of Arab al-Fuqara
Arab al-Fuqara (Arabic: عرب الفقراء) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 10, 1948. At that time, the land records of the village cons ...
and Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri
Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 10, 1948. It was located 40 km south of Haifa.
History
In the 1922 census of ...
, were ordered to leave the area.[Morris, 2004, p]
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In 1992 the village site was described: "The only traces left of the village is one house, which is still inhabited by an Arab family, and an old mulberry tree. The Israeli army has established a military camp that covers a large area near the site. The rest of the surrounding land is planted in melons, wheat, and barley. Some mulberry and eucalyptus trees grows near the site."
References
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External links
'Arab al-Nufay'at
from Zochrot
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 7:
IAA
Wikimedia commons
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Arab villages depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
District of Haifa