Wa'arat al-Sarris
| Wa'arat al-Sarris | |
|---|---|
  Wa'arat al-Sarris | |
| Arabic | وعرة السرّيس |
| Subdistrict | Haifa |
| Coordinates | 32°48′50″N 35°07′08″E / 32.81389°N 35.11889°ECoordinates: 32°48′50″N 35°07′08″E / 32.81389°N 35.11889°E |
| Palestine grid | 161/245 |
| Population | 190 [1] (1945) |
| Date of depopulation | unknown[2] |
Wa'arat al-Sarris (Arabic: وعرة السرّيس) was a Palestinian village in the Haifa Subdistrict, which was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine war.
History
In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, it was counted as a part of Shefa-'Amr suburbs, together with 9 other villages, and together they had a total of 1197 inhabitants, all Muslim, in 234 houses.[3]
In 1945 Wa'rit Sarris was again counted among Shefa-'Amr suburbs, and it was noted with a population of 190 Muslims.[1][4][5][6]
1948, aftermath
During the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, there were raids on Arab villages by Jewish forces, which led to flight of the residents and in early January 1948 Hans Moller, the manager of the Ata factory (in modern day Kiryat Ata) offered the residents of the village to find shelter in his factory, which was near the village, but the residents declined the offer, in fear of being targeted by the Palestinian Arabs and fled to Shefa-'Amr. The village was occupied during April, 1948, during the Battle of Ramat Yohanan between the Jews and the Druze battalion of the Arab Liberation Army.[7] The village was located 11 km east of Haifa.
References
- 1 2 Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 15
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #381. Morris gives both date and cause of depopulation as "Not known".
- ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 95
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 49
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 92
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 142
- ↑ Yoav Gelber, Independence Versus Nakba; Kinneret–Zmora-Bitan–Dvir Publishing, 2004, ISBN 965-517-190-6, p.140
Bibliography
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Khalidi, Walid (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, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.