Abu Shusha (Haifa District)

Abu Shusha
Abu Shusha
Arabic
Sub-district	Haifa
Coordinates	32°36′50.95″N 35°08′16.45″E
Population	720 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	9–10 April 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces

Abu Shusha was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 9, 1948 under the Battle for Mishmar ha-'Emeq.

As of 1945 it had a population of 720.

References

Bibliography

• Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener (1881): The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology. London:Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 2 (p.41)
• Simha Flapan, "The Palestinian Exodus of 1948" in 16, no. 4 (Sum. 87): 3-26. Simha Flapan records HaShomer HaTzair member Eliezer Bauer, who was also a member of the Mapam Arab Department reporting during a discussion that the villagers of Abu Zrik and Abu Shusha were arrested or driven out and the villages were then destroyed.
• Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html
• Khalidi, Walid (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, Benny (2004), The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-00967-7, 9780521009676

External links

• Welcome To Abu Shusha
• Abu Shusha from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
• Abu Shusha - District of Haifa, dr Khalidi