Al-'Abisiyya

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Al-'Abisiyya
العابسية
Village
Etymology: From personal name [1]
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Al-'Abisiyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°11′55″N35°37′59″E / 33.19861°N 35.63306°E / 33.19861; 35.63306
Palestine grid 209/289
Geopolitical entity Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict Safad
Date of depopulationMay 25, 1948 [2]
Population
 (1945)
  Total
1,220 [3]
Cause(s) of depopulationInfluence of nearby town's fall
Current Localities Sde Nehemia

Al-'Abisiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 29, 1948, by The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 28.5 km northeast of Safad near to the Banyas River which the village relied on for irrigation.

History

The village contained the khirbas of Tall al-Sakhina, Tall al-Shari'a, and al-Shaykh Ghannam.

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described the village as "a collection of mud hovels in the plain of the Huleh, on the Nahr Banias containing seventy Moslems. They till the land, which is arable round the village, there is a large supply of water and some trees near the village." [4]

British Mandate era

In the 1931 census of Palestine, during the British Mandate for Palestine, the village had a population of 609, all Muslims, in a total of 31 houses. [5]

In the 1945 statistics the population of Al-'Abisiyya (including nearby Azaziyat, Ein Fit and Khirbat es Summan) was 1,220 Muslims, [3] with a total of 15,429 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. [6] Arabs used 4 dunums of land for citrus and bananas, 6,390 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 2,830 for cereals; [7] while 17 dunams was built-up (urban) area. [8]

1948, aftermath

In May, 1948, Sde Nehemia requested, "somewhat shamefacedly", 1,700 dunams of land from the newly depopulated village of Al-'Abisiyya. [9]

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References

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 13
  2. Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #13. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  3. 1 2 Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
  4. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p.86
  5. Mills, 1932, p. 105
  6. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine .
  7. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 118
  8. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 168
  9. Morris, 2004, p. 363, note #130, p. 402

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