Arab al-Nufay'at

Arab al-Nufay'at عرب النفيعات Arab al Nufeiat[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Arab al-Nufay'at (click the buttons)
Arab al-Nufay'at Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°25′23″N 34°52′54″E
Palestine grid	139/202
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Haifa
Date of depopulation	10 April 1948[1]
Area [3]
• Total	8,937 dunams (8.937 km^2 or 3.451 sq mi)
Population  (1945)
• Total	820[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Expulsion by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Mikhmoret[4]

Arab al-Nufay'at was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on 10 April 1948. It was located 45 km south of Haifa.

History

The population in the 1945 statistics was 820, all Muslims,^[2] with a total of 8,937 dunams of land; of which 1,471 was public land, the rest owned by Jews.^[3][5][6]

In 1945 Mikhmoret was established on village lands, south of the site.^[4]

1948, and after

On 6 April 1948, the Haganah implemented a new policy for the coastal plains, namely of clearing the whole area of its Arab inhabitants. On 10 April the villagers of Arab al-Nufay'at, together with the villagers of Arab al-Fuqara and Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri, were ordered to leave the area.^[7]

In 1992 the village site was described: "The only traces left of the village is one house, which is still inhabited by an Arab family, and an old mulberry tree. The Israeli army has established a military camp that covers a large area near the site. The rest of the surrounding land is planted in melons, wheat, and barley. Some mulberry and eucalyptus trees grows near the site."^[4]

References

1. Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #181. Also gives cause of depopulation
2. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 13
3. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 47
4. Khalidi, 1992, p. 145
5. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 89
6. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 139
7. Morris, 2004, p. 245, note631

Bibliography

• Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
• 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.
• Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.

External links

• Welcome To 'Arab al-Nufay'at
• 'Arab al-Nufay'at, from Zochrot
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 7: IAA, Wikimedia commons