Al-Qudayriyya

Al-Qudayriyya
Al-Qudayriyya
Arabic القديرية
Also spelled Qudeiriya, al-[1]
Subdistrict Safad
Coordinates 32°54′09″N 35°30′25″E / 32.90250°N 35.50694°E / 32.90250; 35.50694Coordinates: 32°54′09″N 35°30′25″E / 32.90250°N 35.50694°E / 32.90250; 35.50694
Palestine grid 197/256
Population 390[2][3] (1945)
Date of depopulation May 4, 1948[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation Military assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary cause Expulsion by Yishuv forces
Current localities Kahal[4]

Al-Qudayriyya (Arabic: القديرية‎) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948, by the Haganah and the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Matate, a sub-operation of Operation Yiftach. It was located 6.5 km south of Safad, situated 1 km east of Wadi al-'Amud.

History

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described nearby Kh. en Nueiriyeh[5] as having "heaps of drafted masonry on the top of terraced hill, with a rock-cut well and three rock-cut wine-presses."[6] According to Khalidi, these were remains of Roman and Byzantine eras.

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine Qudairiyeh had a population of 194; all Muslim,[7] decreasing in the 1931 census to 72, still all Muslims, in a total of 14 houses.[8]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 390 Muslims,[2] with a total of 12,487 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[3] Of this, 2,029 dunums were used for cereals,[9] while 10,458 dunams were non-cultivable area.[10]

A shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh al-Rumi was located in the village and the Khirbat al-Nuwayriyya contained drafted masonry and rock-cut wine presses.[4]

1948, aftermath

The village was depopulate during Operation Matateh, on May 4, 1948.[11][12][13]

References

  1. 1 2 Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #74. Also gives causes of depopulation.
  2. 1 2 Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
  3. 1 2 Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71
  4. 1 2 Khalidi, 1992, p. 487
  5. ↑ meaning "the ruin of the gypsies", according to Palmer, 1881, p. 129
  6. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 404
  7. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 42
  8. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 109
  9. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 120
  10. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 170
  11. ↑ Morris, 2004, p. 249
  12. ↑ Morris, 2004, p. 445
  13. ↑ Morris, 2004, p. 460

Bibliography

  • Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • 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.
  • Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
  • Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
  • Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • al-Qawuqji, F. (1972): Memoirs of al-Qawuqji, Fauzi in Journal of Palestine Studies
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