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.
Al-Qudayriyya
القديرية Qudeiriya, al-[1] | |
|---|---|
Village | |
.jpg) 1870s map .jpg) 1940s map.jpg) modern map .jpg) 1940s with modern overlay mapA series of historical maps of the area around Al-Qudayriyya (click the buttons) | |
  Al-Qudayriyya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°54′17″N 35°30′33″E / 32.90472°N 35.50917°E | |
| Palestine grid | 197/256 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | May 4, 1948[1] |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 390[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Secondary cause | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Kahal[4] |
History
editIn 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
editIn 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
editThe village was depopulate during Operation Matateh, on May 4, 1948.[11][12][13]
References
edit- ^ 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
edit- 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
External links
edit- Welcome To al-Qudayriyya
- al-Qudayriyya, Zochrot
- al-Qudayriyya from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
- Al-Qudayriyya, Dr. Khalil Rizk.
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 6: IAA, Wikimedia commons
