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Welcome To 'Arab al-'Arida - عرب العريضه (אל-ערידה)

District of Baysan
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 20, 1948
Distance From District 6 (km) South of Baysan
Elevation -200 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #24 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Gideon
Attacking Units Golani Brigade
Exodus Cause Influence of fall of, or exoduce from, neighboring town
Village Temains The village was completely destroyed and defaced.
Ethnically Cleansing 'Arab al-'Arida inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 700
Jewish 1,362
Public 218
**Total 2,280
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Planted W/ Cereal 600 1,173
Built up 0 60
Arable 600 1,173
Non-Arable 318 129
Population
Year Population*
1931 182
1945 330 (180 Jewish)
1948 174 (180 Jewish)
Est. Refugees 1998 1,069
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 38
1948 38
Near By Townswhat's new
Farwana
          ↖
Umm 'Ajra
↑
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al-Samiriyya  ←
'Arab al-'Arida
→   'Arab al-Safa
            ↙
al-Hamra
↓
al-Khunayzir
Archeological Sites Tell al-Ru'yan and Tell al-Qurud.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
That Usurped Village Lands		 Sde Eliyyahu
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Village Before Nakba

The village was located in a wide, flat area from which the highlands on the east side of the Jordan could be seen. A broad wadi ran in an east-west direction along its northern perimeter. It was on the eastern side of a highway that led to Baysan in the north and Jericho in the south, and was linked to this highway by a secondary road. A number of springs in the village and on its outskirts provided the residents with water for domestic use and irrigation. Part of the village land was covered with ullayq (a kind of blackberry) bushes. The villagers, originally members of Bedouin tribes who had gradually settled in the area, relied on the cultivation of grain and on livestock breeding for their livelihood. They also planted vegetables on the banks of small streams that were fed by springs. In 1944/45 they allocated a total of 600 dunums of their land to cereals. Two archaeological sites lay to the south of the village: Tall al-Ru'yan and Tall al-Qurud; the latter was notable for the late Islamic pottery that was found on its surface.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Sde Eliyyahu, established in 1939, is east of the village site on village lands.

Village Today

No traces are left of the village. The whole village site is planted in wheat. The archaeological site, Tall al-Ru'yan, has been transformed into a garbage dump.

Source

Dr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains.
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