Tall al-Shawk

Tall al-Shawk
Arabic	تل الشوك
Also Spelled	Tall al Shauk
Sub-district	Baysan
Population	120 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	May 12, 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Influence of nearby town's fall

Tall al-Shawk (Arabic: تل الشوك‎) was a Palestinian village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948 as part of Operation Gideon. It was located five km west of Baysan between the al-Januna'in River to the north and Wadi al-Jawsaq to the south. The village was built above an ancient archeological site and granite columns remain.

History

At the time of the 1931 census, Tall esh Shauk had 11 occupied houses and a population of 41 Muslims.

In 1945 the village had a population of 120.

References

Bibliography

• 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 978-0-521-00967-6. http://books.google.com/?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=benny+morris&q.