Al-Na'ima () was a
Palestinian Arab
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village in the
Safad Subdistrict of
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine was a British Empire, British geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the Palestine (region), region of Palestine, and after 1922, under the terms of the League of Nations's Mandate for Palestine.
After ...
located northeast of
Safad
Safed (), also known as Tzfat (), is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elevation of up to , Safed is the highest city in the Galilee and in Israel.
Safed has been identified with (), a fortified town in the Upper Gal ...
, near the
al-Hula Plain. The settlement was depopulated during the
1947-1948 civil war on May 14, 1948 by the Israeli
Palmach's First Battalion as part of
Operation Yiftach.
In the
1945 statistics it had a population of 1,240 of whom 210 were Jews.
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History
In 1881, during the late Ottoman period, the PEF's '' Survey of Western Palestine'' described the village as a "Stone and mud
Mud (, or Middle Dutch) is loam, silt or clay mixed with water. Mud is usually formed after rainfall or near water sources. Ancient mud deposits hardened over geological time to form sedimentary rock such as shale or mudstone (generally cal ...
village, on the Huleh Plain, containing about 100 Moslems".[Conder and Kitchener, 1881, p]
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British Mandate era
The village had a boys' elementary school.1931 census of Palestine
The 1931 census of Palestine was the second census carried out by the authorities of Mandatory Palestine. It was carried out on 18 November 1931 under the direction of Major E. Mills after the 1922 census of Palestine.
* Census of Palestine 1931, ...
, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ''En Na'ima'' had a population of 858, all Muslims, in a total of 174 houses.[Mills, 1932, p]
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Types of land use in dunam
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s in the village in the 1945 statistics:[Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. ]
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The land ownership of the village before occupation in dunam
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; ; ; ), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area analogous in role (but not equal) to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amo ...
s:[Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945''. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p]
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1948, and aftermath
During the 1948 war, Al-Na'ima was depopulated during Operation Yiftach which targeted Safad and the surrounding district. When the city of Safad was finally attacked between the 10 and 11 May 1948, morale in the village was low; according to an Israeli intelligence report, many residents fled on 14 May shortly before advancing Israeli troops entered.
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External links
Welcome To al-Na'imaal-Na'ima
Zochrot
al-Na'ima
at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
Al-Na'ima
Dr. Khalil Rizk.
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2:
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{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War
Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
District of Safad