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Arab al-Fuqara

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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Arab al-Fuqara

| native_name = عرب الفقراء/الشيخ حلو

| native_name_lang = ar

| settlement_type =

| etymology = Sheikh Helu, p.nPalmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/141/mode/1up 141]

| pushpin_map = Mandatory Palestine | pushpin_map_caption = Location within Mandatory Palestine | image_map = {{Historical map series|default=2|date1=1870s|date2=1940s|date3=modern|date4=1940s with modern overlay|width=225}} | map_caption = A series of historical maps of the area around {{PAGENAME}} (click the buttons)

| pushpin_mapsize = 200

| coordinates = {{coord|32|27|08|N|34|54|21|E|type:city_region:PS|display=inline,title}}

| grid_name = Palestine grid

| grid_position = 140/206

| subdivision_type = Geopolitical entity

| subdivision_name = Mandatory Palestine

| subdivision_type1 = Subdistrict

| subdivision_name1 = Haifa

| established_title1 = Date of depopulation

| established_date1 = April 10, 1948Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR18 xviii], village #180. Also gives cause of depopulation

| established_title2 = Repopulated dates

| area_footnotes = Hadawi, 1970, total area of 2,714 dunams was divided as Arab owned 15 dunams, Jewish owned 2513 dunams, public 186 dunams

| unit_pref = dunam

| area_total_dunam = 15

| population_as_of = 1945

| population_total = 310Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p13.jpg 13]Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Haifa/Page-047.jpg 47]

| blank_name_sec1 = Cause(s) of depopulation

| blank_info_sec1 = Expulsion by Yishuv forces

| blank3_name_sec1 = Current Localities

| blank3_info_sec1 = Hadera

}}

Arab al-Fuqara (Arabic: عرب الفقراء) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 10, 1948. At that time, the land records of the village consisted of a total area of 2,714 dunams, of which 2,513 were owned by Jews, 15 owned by Arabs, and the remaining 186 dunams being public lands.

Location

The village was located 42 km southwest of Haifa, south of Wadi al-Mafjar and northwest of Hadera, in a flat, sandy area.Khalidi, 1992, p.144

History

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In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described a local Mukam Sheikh Helu here, and noted a few adobe houses near, which were not noticed in the official [Government] lists.Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/4/mode/1up 4]

=British Mandate era=

The Arab villagers were descendants of a section of the al-Balawina Bedouin tribe, whose primary territory was near Beersheba. The area was generally swampy and malarial, and this limited population growth until the mid-1920s.

The gradual and legal expansion of the Jewish town Hadera reduced the free public land available to the Arab villagers, until only a thin strip of land between Hadera and Wadi al-Mafjar was retained (15 dunams), where the land was considered non-cultivable.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Haifa/Page-139.jpg 139]

The village population in the 1945 statistics was 310, all Muslims.

=1948 and aftermath=

On 6 April 1948, the Haganah implemented a new policy for the coastal plains, namely of clearing the whole area of its Arab inhabitants.Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA245 245], note 628 On 10 April, the villagers of Arab al-Fuqara, together with the villagers of Arab al-Nufay'at and Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri, were ordered to leave the area.Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA245 245], note 631

Following the 1948 war, the area was incorporated into the State of Israel and the village's land is now part of the northwestern area of Hadera.

References

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Bibliography

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  • {{cite book|last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|author-link1=Claude Reignier Conder|last2=Kitchener|first2=H.H.|author-link2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|year=1883|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp03conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology|location=London|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund|volume=3}}
  • {{cite book|title=Village Statistics, April, 1945 |url=http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/Hebrew/library/Pages/BookReader.aspx?pid=856390|author=Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics|year=1945}}
  • {{cite book|title=Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html|first=S.|last=Hadawi|author-link=Sami Hadawi|year=1970|publisher=Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center}}
  • {{cite book|title=All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ |first=W.|last=Khalidi|author-link=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies|isbn=0-88728-224-5}}
  • {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C |first=B.|last=Morris |author-link=Benny Morris |year=2004 |title=The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited|isbn=978-0-521-00967-6 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}
  • {{cite book|last=Palmer|first=E.H.|author-link=Edward Henry Palmer|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund}}

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External links

  • [https://borisfenus.blogspot.com/2013/01/6-maqams-sharon-plain-and-carmel.html Maqam sheikh Hilu]
  • [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Haifa/Arab-al-Fuqara'/index.html Welcome To 'Arab al-Fuqara']
  • [http://www.zochrot.org/en/village/49435 Arab al-Fuqara'], from Zochrot
  • Survey of Western Palestine, Map 7: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8370 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.07.jpg Wikimedia commons]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100527230306/http://www.alnakba.org/villages/haifa/fuqara.htm Arab al-Fuqara'], from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center

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