Welcome To Fardisya - فرديسيا (פרדיסיא)

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Statistic & Fact

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Occupation Date

April 1, 1948

Distance From District

2.5 (km) South of Tulkarm

Elevation

80 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #13 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Coastal Clearing

Exodus Cause

Expulsion by Zionist troops

Village Temains

Fardisya was mostly destroyed with the exception of one deserted house. If that house is yours, you're more than welcome to claim it back!, it is just matter of time.

Ethnically Cleansing

Fardisya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	1,071
Jewish	0
Public	21
**Total	1,092

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	187
Olive Groves	150
Planted W/ Cereal	388
Built up	19
Arable	575
Non-Arable	498

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1596	83
1922	159
1931	55
1945	20
1948	23
Est. Refugees 1998	143

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	14
1948	14

Near By Towns

	Irtah ↑ (N)	Far'un ↗
Qalansiwa ←	Fardisya
	↓ Tayyiba

Town's Name Through History

The Crusades referred to Fardisya by Phardesi.

Places of Warship

Fardisya had one mosque named after a local religious teacher known by al-Shaykh Musa.

Water Supply

A spring located north of Fardisya provided it with its drinking water needs.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
That Usurped Village Lands

The settlement of Sha'ar Efrayim occupied some Fardisya's lands.

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on the northwestern slope of a hill on the coastal plain. One could see the Mediterranean, to the west, and Tulkarm, to the north, from the village. It was located north of the town of al-Tayyiba, and was linked to this town by a secondary road. A side road also linked Fardisya to the Tulkarm-Qalqilya highway, which ran west of the village. The village was identified with a Crusader site known as Phardesi. In 1596, Fardisya was a village in the nahiya of Bani Sa'b (liwa' of Nablus) with a population of eighty-three. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and olives, as well as on other types of produce, such as goats and beehives. In the late nineteenth century, Fardisya was a small village near the edge of a group of hills. The village houses were built along the roads to the west and south to form a triangle. A mosque named after a religious teacher, Shaykh Musa, was located on the western outskirts of the village. A spring to the north provided the villagers with drinking water. Wells were also found in the vicinity of the village. In 1944/45 a total of 384 dunums was allocated to cereals; 187 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 150 dunums were planted with olive trees.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The villages in this section of the coast came under increasing pressure in April and early May 1948 from Haganah and Irgun attacks and expulsion orders. Although the events that occurred at Fardisya (and a cluster of nearby villages) are not clearly known, it is likely that its inhabitants were displaced some time before or during early April at the latest. The village's location in an area of heavy Jewish settlement would have made it prone to attacks and other forms of intimidation. By mid-May the Haganah had fulfilled its aim of 'clearing' all Arab inhabitants from the coastal plain between Tel Aviv and Zikhron Ya'aqov, a settlement south of Haifa

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land. Sha'ar Efrayim, built in 1953 to the north of the site on land that had traditionally belonged to the village of Far'un, is close to the village lands of Fardisya.

Village Today

With one exception, all of the houses have been levelled, and rubble is scattered throughout the site, especially around the one house that has not been destroyed. This house is rectangular and has an eastern arched entrance and arched windows. One of its rooms is partly destroyed; its ceiling is gone. On the western side, one can see a tomb with a headstone that bears a Qur'anic inscription. Northwest of this tomb, the village cemetery is visible. Houses from the nearby Arab town of al-Tayyiba now stand close to the site of Fardisya.

Source

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

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