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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

May 12, 1948

Distance From District

11.5 (km) South of Baysan

Elevation

(-225) (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #29 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Gidion Operation

Attacking Units

Most likely Golani Brigades

Defenders

Arab Liberation Army

Acts of Terror

Massacre occured by Zionist troops against the town's inhabitants.

Village Temains

al-Fatur was completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.

Ethnically Cleansing

In mid February 1948, al-Fatur inhabitants were mostly terrorized and displaced out of their homes by the racist Zionists.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	709
Jewish	0
Public	20
**Total	729

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Planted W/ Cereal	709
Arable	709
Non-Arable	20

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1931	66
1945	110
1948	128
Est. Refugees 1998	784

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	16
1948	31

Near By Towns

	al-Khunayzir ↑ (N)
Bardala ←	al-Fatur	→ Jordan River
	↓ 'Ayn al-Baydah

Town's Name Through History

The village was also known by al-Shaykh al-Fatur too.

Water Supply

The village still has the spring of al-Fatur which used to supply it with drinking water.

Archeological Sites

The village has two khirbas: the 1st is Shaykh al-Fatur and the 2nd Shaykh Radgha.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
That Usurped Village Lands

No Israeli settlements on village lands.

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a level plain that gradually sloped westward, and overlooked wide areas to the east in the Jordan Valley. It was bordered on the northern and southern sides by the tells of Shaykh al-Fatur (which contained a well built of ancient materials) and Shaykh Radgha. A dirt path linked the village to the Baysan-Jericho highway, which ran a short distance to the west. The villagers earned their living from the cultivation of perennial crops, mainly grain and vegetables. In 1944/45 a total of 709 dunums was allocated to cereals.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The people of al-Fatur may have been displaced in mid-February 1948, as a result of a battle between Zionist forces and the Arab Liberation Army around the nearby Jewish settlement of Tirat Tzvi. Alternatively, they may have held out for three more months until Operation Gideon (see al-Ashrafiyya, Baysan sub-district). The nearby village of al-Zarra'a is reported to have been evacuated on 20 May; it is not known whether it suffered a direct military assault, or whether its people fled under the influence of the exodus from nearby communities. AI-Fatur was close to the subsequent armistice lines.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands. The nearest settlement is that of Tirat Tzvi , founded in 1937, north of the village. Mechola, founded in 1968, is about 5 km southwest of the village site; its inhabitants cultivate some of the village lands.

Village Today

The village has been destroyed, and the surrounding land has been planted in wheat by the Israeli colony of Mechola. The rubble of structures from Shaykh al-Fatur is overgrown with thorns and doum palm trees. The spring of al-Fatur lies immediately to the north of the rubble.

Source

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

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