Tall al-Shawk (), was a
Palestinian
Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine.
*: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...
village in the
District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the
Israel Defense Forces
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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
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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
In 1882 the
PEF's ''
Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described the southern ''Tell ash Shok'' as "an artificial earthen mound, with water on either side".
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
Mandatory Palestine authorities, Tall al-Shawk had a population of 58 Muslims,
decreasing in the
1931 census to a population of 41 Muslims in 11 houses.
In the
1945 statistics, the village had a population of 120 Muslims,
[ while the total land area was 3,685 ]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. Of this, Arabs used 14 dunums for plantations and irrigable land, 33 for cereals, while 18 dunums were classified as non-cultivable land.
1948 and aftermath
Following the war the area was incorporated into the State of Israel
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and the village's land was left undeveloped. In 1992, no traces of the village site remained, and the site was covered with weeds and thorns.[Khalidi, 1992, p. 61]
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External links
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*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 9
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Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War