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| Lifta District of Jerusalem لفتا - ליפתא Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
January 1, 1948
Distance from district center
5 (km) West of Jerusalem
Elevation from the sea
675 (meters)
Map location
See location number #4 on the map
Israeli acts of terror
Six people were gunned down on the 28th December 1947 when Jewish terrorists (probably from Begin's IZL or the Stern gang) shot them in the village coffee house.
Exodus Cause
Military assault by Jewish troops
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisLifta was mostly destroyed with the exception of few deserted houses (including the village mosque and its club) and some houses are used by homeless and hippie Israelis, see Pictures section for details.
Ethnically cleansing
by IsraelisSoon after the terror act on Lifta's coffee house, its population was terrorized repeatedly into leaving by Menachem Begin's IZL and Yitzhak Shamir's Stern terror gangs. By February 1948, the village was completely emptied and all of its inhabitants were trucked to East Jerusalem.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
7,780
Jewish
756
Public
207
Total
8,743
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Jewish (Dunum)
Area planted w/ olives
1,044
0
Planted W/ Cereal
3,248
288
Built up
324
102
Cultivable
3,248
288
Non-Cultivable
4,415
366
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1596
396
1922
1,451
1931
1,893
1945
2,550
1948
2,958
Est. Refugees 1998
18,165
Number of houses
In (1931): 410 (includes Schneller's Quarter)
Town's name through history
During the Biblical and Roman periods, Lifta was known by Nephtoah, the Byzantines called it Nephtho, and the Crusades referred to Lifta with Clepsta.
Schools
Lifta had two elementary schools, one was for boys and the other for girls.
Notable people from town
In 1834, Lifta was the site of a battle in which the Egyptian army under Ibrahim Pasha (the son of Muhammad Ali) defeated local rebels led by a prominent local ruler, al-Shaykh Qasim al-Ahmad.
Religious institutions
One mosque (remain standing)
Shrines/maqams
A shrine for a local sage known by al-Shaykh Badr.
Nearby wadies & rivers
The village overlooks Wadi Salman, also Wadi al-Shami was used for agriculture and providing irrigation water.
Water supplies
Lifta's drinking water was drawn from a spring in Wadi al-Shami, see Pictures section for details.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Currently, it is the suburbs of West Jerusalem.
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
Most of the houses remaining on the site are deserted, although some have been restored for the use of Jewish families. A basin that had been built around the spring in Wadi al-Shami lies in ruins. The mosque and the village club are still visible, north of the spring. Adjacent to the mosque, on the western side, is a cemetery covered with bushes and wild grass
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