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Welcome To 'Arab al-Safa - عرب الصفا (ערב א-צפא)

District of Baysan
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 20, 1948
Distance From District 7.5 (km) South of Baysan
Elevation -225 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #25 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 'Arab al-Safa was completely obliterated and defaced.
Ethnically Cleansing 'Arab al-Safa inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 7,549
Jewish 2,523
Public 2,446
**Total 12,518
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 0 49
Irrigated & Plantation 0 14
Planted W/ Cereal 8,371 2,460
Arable 8,371 2,523
Non-Arable 1,624 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 225
1922 225
1931 540
1945 650
1948 754
Est. Refugees 1998 4,630
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 108
1948 150
Near By Townswhat's new
Umm 'Ajra
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'Arab al-'Arida  ←
'Arab al-Safa
→   Jordan River
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al-Khunayzir
Nearby Wadies & Rivers The village was situated close to Wadi al-Shaykh Mahmud.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
That Usurped Village Lands		 No Israeli settlements on village lands.
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Village Before Nakba

The village extended over a wide area south of the village of Masil al-Jizl and Wadi al-Shaykh Mahmud, and overlooked a broad, open area to the east of the Jordan. A secondary road linked it to the Baysan-Jericho highway that ran 5 km to the west of it, and dirt paths connected it to neighboring villages on the Jordan. In the late nineteenth century, the French traveler Guérin passed through Arab al-Safa, where he reported finding several ancient tombs. Like many villages in Baysan sub-disctrict, Arab al-Safa was originally a summer camping site for nomadic Bedouin that later became a permanent settlement when the Bedouin adopted a sedentary way of life.

Several springs flowed in village lands near the Jordan. The village houses, built of cane and mud, and the tents of some villagers were scattered on both sides of the secondary road that led to the Baysan-Jericho road. Agriculture was the main source of livelihood for the predominantly Muslim population. Their arable lands lay to the east of the village, most notably in the zawr on the Jordan. Their crops included grain and vegetables. Palm trees were planted in the southeast, near a spring. In 1944 a total of 7,449 dunums was allotted to cereals. Other lands, particularly those of the katar (bad lands) and the nearby swamps, were nonarable.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The village of Arab al-Safa was depopulated on 20 May 1948, most probably in the wake of the fall of Baysan, which had been captured around one week earlier in an operation that targeted the entire Baysan Valley. The occupying forces were units of the Golani Brigade, acting within the framework of Plan Dalet

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands. However, Tirat Tzvi, founded in 1937, is close to the site on the lands of al-Zarra'a, to the southwest; Sde Eliyyahu, established in 1939, is also close by on the lands of Arab al-Arida, west of Arab al-Safa.

Village Today

Three palm trees stand on the village site. The surrounding lands are used for growing wheat.

Source

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