Al-Dirbashiyya

Al-Dirbashiyya
Al-Dirbashiyya
Arabic الدرباشية
Also spelled Darbashiya, al[1]
Subdistrict Safad
Coordinates 33°05′20″N 35°38′49″E / 33.08889°N 35.64694°E / 33.08889; 35.64694Coordinates: 33°05′20″N 35°38′49″E / 33.08889°N 35.64694°E / 33.08889; 35.64694
Palestine grid 210/277
Population 310[2][3] (1945)
Area 2,883[3] dunams
Date of depopulation May, 1948[1]

Al-Dirbashiyya (Arabic: الدرباشية‎) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 10, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 20 km northeast of Safad in the Hula Valley, bordering Hula Lake.

Location

The village was located on the lower slopes of the Golan Heights near the border with Syria overlooking the Hula Valley. The lands to the west of the village were mainly marshland, although there were a few palm trees, and wooded areas to the south. A shrine named after a Muslim sage, named al-Samadi, was located between the village and Hula Lake.[4]

History

The Palestine Index Gazetteer classified the village as a hamlet and during the British Mandate the British built a police station.[4]

The inhabitants mainly earned their living from the cultivation of vegetables.[4]

In the 1945 statistics Ed Darbashiya had a population of 310 Muslims,[2] with a total of 2,883 dunam of land.[3] Of this, they used 2,763 dunums for plantations and irrigable land,[5] while 120 dunams were classified as non-uncultivable land.[6]

Post 1948

In 1992 the village site was described: "The rubble of destroyed houses is scattered across the village site. The site also contains a segment of a cement-lined irrigation canal, and the remains of terraces in some fields. The village lands, which are used mainly as pastures, are covered with grass, cactus plants, and Christ’s-thorn and eucalyptus trees."[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #29. Gives date and cause of depopulation with an "?"
  2. 1 2 Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
  3. 1 2 3 Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69
  4. 1 2 3 Khalidi, 1992, pp. 446-447
  5. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 118
  6. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 168
  7. ↑ Khalidi, 1992, p. 447

Bibliography

  • Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  • Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
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