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Welcome To Kafra - كفرة (כפרה)

District of Baysan
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 16, 1948
Distance From District 10.5 (km) North of Baysan
Elevation 180 (meters)
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Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
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Pre-Nakba Aerial View
Map Location See location #7 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 obliterated and defaced.
Ethnically Cleansing Kafra inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 7,409
Jewish 0
Public 1,763
**Total 9,172
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 36
Olive Groves 83
Planted W/ Cereal 8,379
Built up 18
Arable 8,415
Non-Arable 739
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 273
1931 298
1945 430
1948 499
Est. Refugees 1998 3,063
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 81
1948 135
Near By Townswhat's new
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Yubla
Shrines / Maqams A shrine for a local religious teacher known as al-Shaykh Muhammad.
Archeological Sites Kafra contains the ruins of an unknown ancient village on its lands.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
That Usurped Village Lands
No Israeli settlements on village lands.
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated in the middle of the Baysan Valley. Its houses were built on both sides of the upper reaches of Wadi Kafra, a shallow Valley. A secondary road linked it to the Baysan-Jericho highway, and other roads connected it to surrounding villages. There was a small forest south of the village. It had been known by the name Kafra since at least the time of the Crusades, when the Crusaders spelled it "Caffra." Its population was Muslim. A shrine for a local religious teacher, Shaykh Muhammad, stood to the east of the village. Due to its location at a crossroads between many villages, Kafra became a hub of commercial activity for the area, but agriculture remained the mainstay of the village economy. Grain, vegetables, and olives were the main crops. In 1944/45 a total of 7,284 dunums was allocated to cereals; 36 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Kafra also was an archaeological site in which a trough carved out of basalt and the ruins of an ancient village were found.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land.

Village Today

Cactuses grow amid the rubble of the village. Almond, olive, and fig trees grow on the site, and a fence surrounds much of the land in the vicinity. Part of the surrounding land is used for grazing but the land near the hill is cultivated, mainly with chick peas. The remains of the basalt trough and of the ancient village itself are still present but have not been examined by archaeologists.

Source

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

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