Arab al-'Arida

Arab al-'Arida
عرب العريضه
Arab al-Areeda
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Arab al-'Arida is located in Mandatory Palestine
Arab al-'Arida
Arab al-'Arida
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°26′28″N 35°30′52″E / 32.44111°N 35.51444°E / 32.44111; 35.51444
Palestine grid198/205
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictBaysan
Date of depopulationMay 20, 1948[3]
Area
[2]
 • Total700 dunams (70 ha or 200 acres)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total150[1][2]
Cause(s) of depopulationInfluence of nearby town's fall
Current LocalitiesSde Eliyahu[4]

Arab al-'Arida (Arabic: عرب العريضه), is a depopulated former Palestinian Arab village and 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) south of the city of Beit She'an.

History

It stood on the Tell al-Ru'yan and Tell al-Qurud sites.

British Mandate era

In the 1931 census it had a population of 182, all Muslims, in a total of 38 houses.[5]

In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 150 Muslims[1] and held 700 dunams of land.[2] In 1944/45 a total of 600 dunums of village land was used for cereals,[6][7] while 100 dunams were classed as uncultivable.[8]

1948 and aftermath

It was captured by Israel's Golani Brigade during Operation Gideon on May 20, 1948. Following the war the area was incorporated into the State of Israel. The Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, described the village remains in 1992: "No traces are left of the village. The whole village site is planted in wheat. The archaeological site, Tall al-Ru'yan, has been transformed into a garbage dump."[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 6
  2. ^ a b c Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 43
  3. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #130. Also gives cause of depopulation
  4. ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p.41
  5. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 77
  6. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 40
  7. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 84
  8. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 134

Bibliography

  • Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains:The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  • Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
  • Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.