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| '''Al-Husayniyya''' ({{lang-ar|الحسينية}}) was a ] village, depopulated in 1948. | '''Al-Husayniyya''' ({{lang-ar|الحسينية}}) was a ] village, depopulated in 1948. | ||
| In the late 19th century, Al-Husayniyya was one of several villages settled by ] under the auspices of the ]. The inhabitants belonged to the tribe of Awlad bu Alkabir, from ], ].<ref name=":32">{{Cite journal |last=Ahmad Abbasi |first=Mustafa |date=2007 |title=הקהילה האלג'יראית בגליל משלהי השלטון העות'מני עד שנת 1948 |journal=אופקים בגיאוגרפיה |volume=68/9 |pages=56-62}}</ref> | |||
| On 13 May 1948, ] paramilitary forces committed a crime by killing more than 30 children and women, which led the rest of the people living in the village to flee and seek shelter in ] and ].<ref name="Khalidi, 1992, p. 456">Khalidi, 1992, p. 456</ref> | On 13 May 1948, ] paramilitary forces committed a crime by killing more than 30 children and women, which led the rest of the people living in the village to flee and seek shelter in ] and ].<ref name="Khalidi, 1992, p. 456">Khalidi, 1992, p. 456</ref> | ||
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For other villages and towns with a similar name, see Hussainiya (disambiguation). Village in Safad, Mandatory Palestine| Al-Husayniyya الحسينيةAl-Husayniyya | |
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| Etymology: Khirbat Al-Husayniyya: The ruin of el Hasanîyeh, named after Hasan ibn Ali | |
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A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Husayniyya, Safad (click the buttons) | |
  Al-HusayniyyaLocation within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°02′23″N 35°34′58″E / 33.03972°N 35.58278°E / 33.03972; 35.58278 | |
| Palestine grid | 204/271 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | 21 April 1948 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5,324 dunams (5.324 km or 2.056 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 340 (together with Tulayl) |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
| Current Localities | Chulata, Sde Eliezer |
Al-Husayniyya (Template:Lang-ar) was a Palestinian village, depopulated in 1948.
In the late 19th century, Al-Husayniyya was one of several villages settled by Algerian migrants under the auspices of the Ottoman Empire. The inhabitants belonged to the tribe of Awlad bu Alkabir, from Blida, Algeria.
On 13 May 1948, Haganah paramilitary forces committed a crime by killing more than 30 children and women, which led the rest of the people living in the village to flee and seek shelter in Lebanon and Syria.
Location
The village was located 11 kilometres northeast of Safed, on a slightly elevated hill in the southwestern corner of the al-Hula Plain. It stood along the eastern side of a highway that led to Safad and Tiberias.
History
The Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi noted its ancient buildings and praised one of them, which he claimed had originally been a temple and perhaps was built by Solomon.
Ottoman era
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described the place as having "a few ruined cattle-sheds".
In the second half of the 19th century, after the Algerian followers of Abdelkader El Djezairi had been defeated by the French in Algeria, they sought refuge in another part of the Ottoman Empire. They were given lands in various locations in Ottoman Syria, including al-Husayniyya, and the nearby villages of Dayshum, Ammuqa, Marus and Tulayl.
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the Husainiyeh tribal area had a population of 127; all Muslims, increasing to 274 in the 1931 census; still all Muslims, in a total of 64 houses.
In the 1945 statistics the population the combined population of Tulayl and Al-Husayniyya was 340 Muslims, with a total of 5,324 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. All the villagers were Muslims. A total of 3,388 dunums was allocated to cereals and 22 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards for Tuleil and Al-Husayniyya. The villagers also kept livestock, especially water buffalo, for ploughing, dairy production, and meat.
1948, and aftermath
On the night of 12–13 March 1948, a Palmah strike against Husseiniyya resulted in a number of houses being blown up, and several dozen Arabs, who included members of an Iraqi volunteer contingent and women and children, were killed and another 20 wounded. According to reports, Husseiniyya's mukhtar was executed after being reassured by the raiders that he would not be harmed. The Palmah's Third Battalion lost three dead. According to Palmah reports cited by Morris, "the village was completely evacuated". Some of the villagers who escaped the massacres may have remained or returned in subsequent days; according to Israeli military intelligence, the residents of al-Husayniyya did not leave until 21 April.
The settlement of Chulata, established in 1937, is 3 km (2 mi) east of the site, near Tulayl. The settlement of Sde Eliezer is on village land, about 1 km (1 mi) west of the village site.
The Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi described the place in 1992: "Only piles of stone and sections of walls from demolished houses remain. The site itself is overgrown with thorns, grasses, and scattered Christ’s-thorn trees, and is used as pasture. The land in the vicinity is cultivated."
See also
References
- Palmer, 1881, p. 83
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 11
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine, includes Tuleil
- Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #36. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 457
- Ahmad Abbasi, Mustafa (2007). "הקהילה האלג'יראית בגליל משלהי השלטון העות'מני עד שנת 1948". אופקים בגיאוגרפיה. 68/9: 56–62.
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 456
- Khalidi, 1992, pp. 455-6
- le Strange, 1890, p.340
- Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 239
- Abbasi, 2007 (Hebrew). Non-Hebrew version in The Maghreb Review, 28(1), 2003 pp. 41-59.
- Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 42
- Mills, 1932, p. 107
- United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, Appendix B Archived 2012-06-09 at the Wayback Machine, p. 6
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 121 Archived 2018-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
- Morris, 2004, p. 132, notes # 540, 541, p. 160
- Morris, 2004, p. 344, Note # 15, Palmah HQ to HGS, "Daily Report", 13 Mar. 1948, IDFA 922\\75\\1066 and Palmah HQ to HGS, "Daily Report", 17 Mar. 1948, HA 105\62, p. 396
Bibliography
- Abbasi, Mustafa (2007). "From Algeria to the Holy Land: Algerian communities in the Galilee, from the late Ottoman period to 1948 / הקהילה האלג'יראית בגליל משלהי השלטון העות'מני עד שנת 1948". Horizons in Geography / אופקים בגאוגרפיה (68/69): 56–72. ISSN 0334-3774. JSTOR 23716446.
- 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. Vol. 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. Archived from the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- 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.
- Strange, le, G. (1890). Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
External links
- Welcome To al-Husayniyya, Palestine Remembered
- al-Husayniyya, Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- al-Husayniyya, Villages of Palestine
