Al-Nahr
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| Arabic | النهر |
| Also Spelled | an-Nahr |
| Sub-district | Acre |
| Coordinates | 33°00′25.42″N 35°08′28.58″E / 33.0070611°N 35.1412722°ECoordinates: 33°00′25.42″N 35°08′28.58″E / 33.0070611°N 35.1412722°E |
| Population | |
| Area | [1] dunums |
| Date of depopulation | 21 May 1948[2] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Ben Ami[3] Kabri |
al-Nahr (Arabic: النهر) was a Palestinian village 14 km northeast of Acre. It was depopulated in May 1948 after a military assault carried out by the Carmeli Brigade as part of the Israel Defence Force's Operation Ben-Ami. Immediately after the assault the village of al-Nahr was razed.[4][5]
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[edit] History
The twin villages of Al-Nahr and nearby al-Tall were both sites of ancient settlements. Recent excavations indicate habitation back to the eighteenth century BC.[6]
In villagers of Al-Nahr were Muslim, and lived principally of agriculture and animal husbandry. In 1944/45 a total of 2,066 dunums was used for citrus and bananas, 1,094 dunums were allotted to cereals, 1,937 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 30 dunums were planted in olive trees.[7]
[edit] 1948, and after
The Israeli settlement of Kabri makes use of village land.[7] The settlement of Ben Ami, named after the fallen commander of an attack on nearby Nahariyya, was also established on the village land.[7]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Palestine remembered al-Nahr
- ^ Morris, 2004, p xvii village #82
- ^ Morris, Benny, (second edition 2004 third printing 2006) The Birth Of The Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-00967-7 p xx village 152
- ^ Morris, Benny, (second edition 2004 third printing 2006) The Birth Of The Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-00967-7 p 253
- ^ Benvenisti (2000), p. 139
- ^ Aaron Kempinsky (1987): Israel Exploration Journal 37:176. Cited in Khalidi (1992), p. 27-28
- ^ a b c Khalidi (1992), p. 28
[edit] Bibliography
- Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Mêrôn Benveniśtî (2000). Sacred landscape: the buried history of the Holy Land since 1948. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-23422-2. http://books.google.com/?id=7itq6zYtSJwC.
- Morris, Benny, (second edition 2004 third printing 2006) The Birth Of The Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-00967-7
[edit] External links
- Welcome to al-Nahr
- Hussein Mubaraki: Because They Wanted the Land, WREMEA, May-June 2008
