Umm ash Shauf
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| Arabic | أُم الشوف |
| Also Spelled | Umm al Shauf |
| Sub-district | Haifa |
| Coordinates | 32°33′12.05″N 35°02′55.3″E / 32.5533472°N 35.048694°ECoordinates: 32°33′12.05″N 35°02′55.3″E / 32.5533472°N 35.048694°E |
| Population | 480 (1945[1]) |
| Area | 7,426 dunums |
| Date of depopulation | May 12-14, 1948[2] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Umm al-Shawf or Umm ash Shauf (Arabic: أُم الشوف, Umm esh Shauf) was a Palestinian Arab village located 29.5 km south of Haifa, on the sloping section of Wadi al-Marah. It was depopulated as a result of a military assault between May 12-14, just prior to the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
[edit] References
- ^ Hadawi, 1970, p. 49. Also gives land area in dunams.
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii village #157. Also gives cause of depopulation.
[edit] 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.43)
- 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
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