Al-Buwayziyya () was a
Palestinian
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Arab
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village in the
Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the
1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 11, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of
Operation Yiftach. It was located 22 km northeast of
Safad
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.
In the
1944/45 statistics it had a population 510
Muslim
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s.
[ The village had elementary school for boys which was founded in 1937.
]
History
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine
The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922.
The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divis ...
conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ''Buaizia'' had a population of 276, all Muslims,[Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p]
42
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The population were mostly engaged in agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...
and mainly grew citrus fruits, grains and vegetables.[Khalidi, 1992, p.442] In 1944/45 it had a total of 14,620 dunum of land,[ of which 2,770 dunums was allocated to cereal farming, 56 dunums was used for irrigation and orchards, while 17 dunams were classified as urban (built-up) land.
]
1948, aftermath
The village was attacked by Israeli forces on 11 May 1948 as part of Operation Yiftach which depopulated eastern Galilee. According to Israeli historian Benny Morris
Benny Morris (; born 8 December 1948) is an Israeli historian. He was a professor of history in the Middle East Studies department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the city of Beersheba, Israel. Morris was initially associated with the ...
, al-Buwayziyya’s residents fled when they learned that the neighboring village of al-Khalisa, 5 km to the north, had succumbed to Jewish forces and as a result the village had been evacuated after the Haganah declined the villagers’ request for conditional permission to stay.[Khalidi, 1992, p.443]
References
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External links
Welcome To al-Buwayziyyaal-Buwayziyya
Zochrot
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4
IAAWikimedia commons
at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
al-Buwayziyya
Dr. Khalil Rizk.
{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War
Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
District of Safad