Al-Butaymat ( ar, البطيمات, ''El Buteimât'') was a
Palestinian Arab village 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 ...
, located southeast of
Haifa
Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...
. It was depopulated during the
1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948, under the
Battle of Mishmar HaEmek.
History
In 1882, the
PEF's ''
Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) found "traces of ruins" here.
A Haifa man, named Mustafa al-Khalil acquired land in among other places, Al-Butaymat, in the late Ottoman era.
British Mandate era
In the
1922 census of Palestine
The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922.
The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divisi ...
conducted by the
British Mandate authorities, ‘’Al Buteimat’’ had a population 137, all Muslims,
[Barron, 1923, Table xi, Sub-district of Haifa, p]
34
/ref> decreasing in the 1931 census to 112 Muslims, in a total of 29 houses.[Mills, 1932, p]
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In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 110 Muslims,[ and they had 3,832 ]dunam
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...
s of land according to an official land and population survey.[ Of this, 8 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 2,508 for cereals, while 4 dunams were built-up (urban) land.
In 1945 the ]kibbutz
A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...
of Gal'ed
Gal'ed ( he, גַּלְעֵד, ''lit.'' Monument) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Menashe Heights with an area of 14,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Megiddo Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
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was established on what was traditionally village land.[
File:Shauf 1942.jpg, Al-Butaymat 1942 1:20,000
File:Qannir 1945.jpg, Al-Butaymat 1945 1:250,000
]
1948 and aftermath
Benny Morris
Benny Morris ( he, בני מוריס; born 8 December 1948) is an Israeli historian. He was a professor of history in the Middle East Studies department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the city of Beersheba, Israel. He is a member of t ...
gives May 1948 as depopulation date, and "Fear of being caught up in the fighting" as the cause, but with a question mark.[Morris, 2004, p]
406
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In 1992 the village site was described: "The site is fenced in, overgrown with grass and cactuses. There are no traces of houses except for adobe bricks scattered around the site. Most of the surrounding lands are used as grazing areas, but some of them are cultivated."
References
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External links
al-Butaymat
Zochrot
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8:
IAAWikimedia commons
from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War
Arab villages depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
District of Haifa