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| Zalafa, Khirbat District of Tulkarm خربة زلفة - ח'ירבת זלפה Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
April 15, 1948
Distance from district center
15 (km) Northwest of Tulkarm
Elevation from the sea
25 (meters)
Map location
See location number #3 on the map
Israeli military operation
Coastal Clearing
Exodus Cause
Feer of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisKhirbat Zalafa was completely obliterated
Ethnically cleansing
by IsraelisZalafa, Khirbat inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
6,865
Jewish
617
Public
231
Total
7,713
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Jewish (Dunum)
Area planted w/ citrus
38
0
Irrigated & Plantation
6
109
Planted W/ Cereal
6,798
505
Built up
3
0
Cultivable
6,842
614
Non-Cultivable
251
3
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1922
63
1945
210
1948
244
Est. Refugees 1998
1,496
Inhabitants place of origin
The people who founded the village originally migrated from the nearby village of 'Attil, Tulkarm (currently, in the occupied West Bank).
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
No Israeli Jewish settlements on village lands.
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
The village has been completely levelled. Boili ilie original site and ilie surrounding lands are covered wiili Israeli citrus orchards
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