Village in Safad, Mandatory Palestine
Al-Qudayriyya (
Arabic : القديرية ) was a
Palestinian
Arab village in the
Safad Subdistrict . It was depopulated during the
1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948, by the Haganah and the Palmach's First Battalion of
Operation Matate , a sub-operation of
Operation Yiftach . It was located 6.5 km south of
Safad , situated 1 km east of Wadi al-'Amud.
History
In 1881, the
PEF 's
Survey of Western Palestine described nearby Kh. en Nueiriyeh
[5] as having "heaps of drafted masonry on the top of terraced hill, with a rock-cut well and three rock-cut wine-presses".
[6] According to
Khalidi , these were remains of
Roman and
Byzantine eras.
British Mandate era
In the
1922 census of Palestine Qudairiyeh had a population of 194; all
Muslim ,
[7] decreasing in the
1931 census to 72, still all Muslims, in a total of 14 houses.
[8]
In the
1945 statistics the population was 390 Muslims,
[2] with a total of 12,487 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.
[3] Of this, 2,029 dunums were used for cereals,
[9] while 10,458 dunams were non-cultivable area.
[10]
The village had a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh al-Rumi and the Khirbat al-Nuwayriyya is located in the village.
[4]
1948, aftermath
The village was depopulate during
Operation Matateh , on May 4, 1948.
[11]
[12]
[13]
References
^
a
b Morris, 2004, p.
xvii , village #74. Also gives causes of depopulation.
^
a
b Department of Statistics, 1945, p.
10
^
a
b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945 . Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
71
Archived 2011-06-04 at the
Wayback Machine
^
a
b Khalidi, 1992, p. 487
^ meaning "the ruin of the gypsies", according to Palmer, 1881, p.
129
^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p.
404
^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p.
42
^ Mills, 1932, p.
109
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945 . Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
120
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
170
^ Morris, 2004, p.
249
^ Morris, 2004, p.
445
^ Morris, 2004, p.
460
Bibliography
Barron, J.B., ed. (1923).
Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 . Government of Palestine.
Conder, C.R. ;
Kitchener, H.H. (1881).
The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology . Vol. 1. London:
Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund .
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. Archived from
the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2009-08-18 .
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 .
Palmer, E.H. (1881).
The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer .
Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund .
al-Qawuqji, F. (1972):
Memoirs of al-Qawuqji, Fauzi in
Journal of Palestine Studies
"Memoirs, 1948, Part I" in 1, no. 4 (Sum. 72): 27-58. , dpf-file, downloadable
"Memoirs, 1948, Part II" in 2, no. 1 (Aut. 72): 3-33. , dpf-file, downloadable
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