Hadatha

Ceramics from the late Roman and Byzantine era have been found.{{sfn|Dauphin|1998|p=730}}

According to tradition, Hadatha was one of the "Al-Hija" villages named after Emir Hussam al-Din Abu al-Hija.{{sfn|Benvenisti|2000|pp=[https://archive.org/details/sacredlandscapeb00benvrich/page/193 193]–195}} Abu al-Hija ("the Daring") was a Kurdish commander that partook in Sultan Saladin's conquest (1187–93) of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. He was renowned for his bravery, and commanded the garrison of Acre at the time of the Siege of Acre (1189–1192).{{sfn|Benvenisti|2000|pp=[https://archive.org/details/sacredlandscapeb00benvrich/page/193 193]–195}}

Abu al-Hija apparently returned to Iraq, but several members of his family remained in the country under orders from Saladin, and these family members settled on large tracts of land that they were given in the Carmel region, in the Lower, Eastern and Western Galilee, and in the Hebron Highlands.{{sfn|Benvenisti|2000|pp=[https://archive.org/details/sacredlandscapeb00benvrich/page/193 193]–195}} Self-proclaimed kinsmen of al-Hija settled in the villages of Hadatha and Sirin in the Lower Galilee, and Ruweis and Kawkab in the Western Galilee. By tradition the descendants today still claim to be blood relations of al-Hija.{{sfn|Benvenisti|2000|pp=[https://archive.org/details/sacredlandscapeb00benvrich/page/193 193]–195}}

In 1596, Hadatha was part of the Ottoman Empire, and the tax register of that year revealed a population of 121.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 187. As given in Khalidi, 1992, p. 517.Note that Rhode, 1979, p. [https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century 6] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420031504/https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century |date=2019-04-20 }} writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9. All the villagers were Muslim.22 households, according to Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 187. A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed the place, named as El Hadaci.Karmon, 1960, p. [http://www.jchp.ucla.edu/Bibliography/Karmon,_Y_1960_Jacotin_Map_(IEJ_10).pdf 167] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222063351/http://jchp.ucla.edu/Bibliography/Karmon,_Y_1960_Jacotin_Map_(IEJ_10).pdf |date=2019-12-22 }}.

Victor Guérin, who visited in 1875, noted: "Some of the houses, which are still inhabited, have been constructed of good cut stones taken from some old buildings and mixed with small materials. On the slopes of the hill are found some ten shafts of columns lying scattered about the ground. They are the remains of a monument totally destroyed".{{sfn|Guérin|1880|pp=[https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr01unkngoog#page/n150/mode/1up 137]–138, [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr01unkngoog#page/n280/mode/1up 267]}}{{sfn|Conder|Kitchener|1881|p=[https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/384/mode/1up 384]}}

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described El Hadetheh as: "Stone village, containing 250 Moslems, on cultivated plain, growing barley, etc. No trees or gardens near. Good spring of water and cisterns in the village".{{sfn|Conder|Kitchener|1881|p=[https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/360/mode/1up 360]}} They further noted that there was a "Spring on south-east side; good supply of water, perennial; a small stream flowing from it in winter and spring."{{sfn|Conder|Kitchener|1881|p=[https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/378/mode/1up 378]}}

A population list from about 1887 showed el Hadatheh to have about 1,100 inhabitants; all Muslims.Schumacher, 1888, p. [https://archive.org/stream/quarterlystateme19pale#page/n210/mode/1up 185]

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Hadatheh had a population of 333, all Muslim,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tiberias, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n41/mode/1up 39]. increasing in the 1931 census to 368; 1 Christian, 1 Druze and 366 Muslims, in a total of 75 houses.{{sfn|Mills|1932|p=[https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 82]}}

By the 1945 statistics, the village population was 520 Muslims, and the total land area was {{convert|10,310|dunam}}. {{convert|199|dunam}} were irrigated or used for orchards, {{convert|8,379|dunam}} were used for cereals,{{cite web |title=Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, page 122 |date=1970 |url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Tiberias/Page-122.jpg}} and {{convert|38|dunam}} were built-up (urban) land.{{cite web |title=Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, page 172 |date=1970 |url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Tiberias/Page-172.jpg}}

According to Morris, the village was abandoned during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948, under the orders of the Arab Higher Committee.{{sfn|Morris|2004|p= [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA177 177]}} However, Khalidi noted an inconsistency in the account, since the History of Haganah wrote that "the inhabitants fled in fear of the Jews".{{sfn|Khalidi|1992|p=518}}

In 1992, it was noted that though there were no settlements on village land, the inhabitants of Kefar Qish were cultivating the surrounding lands.{{sfn|Khalidi|1992|p=518}} A number of Hadatha's dispossessed inhabitants resettled in Tamra, near Acre, during the 1950s.Rosenfeld and Al-Haj 1990, p. 93.

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• [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Tiberias/Hadatha/index.html Welcome To Hadatha]
• [http://www.zochrot.org/en/village/49178 Hadatha], Zochrot
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 6: [https://web.archive.org/web/20150627182059/http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8369 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.06.jpg Wikimedia commons]

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