Statistic/Fact	Value
Israeli occupation date	May 6, 1948
Distance from district center	14 (km) West of Tiberias
Elevation from the sea	250 (meters)
Map location	See location number #15 on the map
Israeli attacking brigade	Units from the Golani Brigade
Village defenders	Arab Liberation Army and local Palestinian militia.
Exodus Cause	Military assault by Jewish troops
Village remains after destruction by Israelis	al-Shajara was completely obliterated, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically cleansing by Israelis	al-Shajara inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership before occupation	Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums) Arab 2,757 Jewish 61 Public 936 Total 3,754
Land usage in 1945	Land Usage Type Arab (Dunum) Jewish (Dunum) Area planted w/ olives 700 0 Planted W/ Cereal 2,114 28 Built up 100 0 Cultivable 2,658 61 Non-Cultivable 935 0
Population before occupation	Year Population 1596 396 19th century 150 1922 543 1931 584 1945 770 1948 893 Est. Refugees 1998 5,485
Number of houses	Year Number of houses 1931 124 1948 189
Town's name through history	The Crusades referred to al-Shajara by Seiera.
Schools	al-Shajara had an elementary school for boys which was founded during the British Mandate period.
Notable people from town	Although the great Palestinian poet Abed al-Raheem Mahmoud was born in 'Anabta (Tulkarm district in the occupied West Bank), he was killed by the Israelis during one of the counter attacks launched to recapture the village by the ALA on July 13th, 1948. He was later buried in Nazareth, Palestine.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands	Naniyya, Sde Nan, and the agricultural station of Chawwat ha-Shomer.
Related Maps	خرائط تفصيلية للمحافظة View from satellite Help us map this town at WikiMapia
More Information	Language External Links Arabic PalGates Hebrew Nakba-Online

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Town Today

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
The ruins of houses and broken steel bars protrude from beds of wild vegetation. One side of an arched doorway still stands. The western part of the site and the nearby hill are covered with cactus. On the northern edge is a wide, deep well with a spiral stairway inside (used for periodic cleaning and maintenance of the well). Fig, doum-palm, and chinaberry trees grow in the area

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