Arab al-Nufay'at was a
Palestinian
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*: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...
Arab
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Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years ...
village in the
Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the
1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on 10 April 1948. It was located 45 km south of
Haifa
Haifa ( ; , ; ) is the List of cities in Israel, 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 metropolitan area i ...
.
History
The population in the
1945 statistics was 820, all Muslims,
[ with a total of 8,937 dunams of land; of which 1,471 was public land, the rest owned by Jews.][
In 1945 ]Mikhmoret
Mikhmoret () is a moshav in central Israel. Located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea around nine kilometres north of Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The moshav ...
was established on village lands, south of the site.[
]
1948, and after
On 6 April 1948, the Haganah
Haganah ( , ) was the main Zionist political violence, Zionist paramilitary organization that operated for the Yishuv in the Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate for Palestine. It was founded in 1920 to defend the Yishuv's presence in the reg ...
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 and Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri, 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."[
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External links
'Arab al-Nufay'at
from Zochrot
Zochrot (; "Remembering"; ; "Memories") is an Israeli nonprofit organization founded in 2002. Based in Tel Aviv, its aim is to promote awareness of the Nakba, including the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight. The group was co-founded by Eitan ...
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 7:
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Arab villages depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
District of Haifa