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| Hunin District of Safad هونين - הונין Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
May 3, 1948
Distance from district center
28.5 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation from the sea
650 (meters)
Map location
See location number #8 on the map
Israeli military operation
Operation Yiftach (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)
Israeli attacking brigade
The Palmach's First Battalion
Village defenders
Local Palestinian militia
Israeli acts of terror
Massacre occured by Jewish troops against the town's inhabitants.
Exodus Cause
Feer of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisThe village has been mostly destroyed with the exception of the boys elementary school
Ethnically cleansing
by IsraelisHunin inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
13,623
Jewish
486
Public
115
Total
14,224
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Jewish (Dunum)
Irrigated & Plantation
859
19
Area planted w/ olives
152
0
Planted W/ Cereal
6,092
290
Built up
81
0
Cultivable
6,951
309
Non-Cultivable
6,706
177
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1931
1,075
1945
1,620
1948
1,879
Est. Refugees 1998
11,540
Schools
One elementary school for boys (still standing, but it needs renovations guys)
Religious institutions
One mosque
Archeological sites
The village contained a Crusaders castle called Chastel Neuf
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Misgav 'Am and Margaliyyot (settled by Iraqi and Yamani Arab Jews)
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
The cemetery , the elementary school, and the castle built by the Crusaders remain. The castle is a tourist attraction, and the school is used by Israelis as an agricultural warehouse. The lands in the vicinity are cultivated by the settlers
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