Qannir

In the late Ottoman era, Qannir appears on sheet 45 of Jacotin's map drawn-up during Napoleon's invasion in 1799.Palestine Exploration Quarterly Jan-Apr 1944. Jacotin's Map of Palestine. D.H.Kellner. p. 161.Karmon, 1960, p. [http://www.jchp.ucla.edu/Bibliography/Karmon,_Y_1960_Jacotin_Map_(IEJ_10).pdf 169] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222063351/http://jchp.ucla.edu/Bibliography/Karmon,_Y_1960_Jacotin_Map_(IEJ_10).pdf |date=22 December 2019 }}

In 1859, the English consul Rogers estimated the population to be 250, who cultivated 24 feddans of land. By 1882, PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the place as a village of adobe of moderate size, with one well to the south, and another to the west.Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/42/mode/1up p.42]. Cited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 181. By a later account, the village consisted of stone houses built side by side.

A population list from about 1887 showed that el Kannir had about 665 inhabitants, all Muslim.Schumacher, 1888, p. [https://archive.org/stream/quarterlystateme19pale#page/n205/mode/1up 180]

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Qannir had a population of 400; all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Haifa, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n36/mode/1up 34] increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 483, still all Muslims, in a total of 92 houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 94]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 750 Muslims with 10,826 dunums of land. Of this, a total of 5,760 dunums were used for cereals; while 460 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Haifa/Page-091.jpg 91] while 22 dunams were built-up (urban) land.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-141.jpg 141]

File:Qannir 1942.jpg|Qannir 1942 1:20,000

File:Qannir 1945.jpg|Qannir 1945 1:250,000

Between 22 and 24 April 1948, the women and children of Qannir started to evacuate the village, apparently on [Arab] "orders from on high".Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA175 175], note 67: "Summary of Intelligence for Alexandroni Brigade" (11.5.48), No. 8´IDFA (=Israel Defense Forces and Defence Ministry Archive) 2506\49\\80.Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA244 244] note 623: Tiroshi (Eitan)´to HIS-AD, 29 Apr. 1948, HA 105\257; and HIS-AD (=Haganah Intelligence Service -Arab Department) Information 29.4.48. IDFA 922\75\\1205.

According to a dispatch sent by Fawzi al-Qawuqji to the [Arab] High Command, an enemy attack from Ein Hashofeit started on 0400 on 8 May towards Quannir and Kafr Quari. The attackers were supported by armored cars. According to al-Qawuqji the attack was "resisted and repelled", with a result of one killed and four wounded on the Palestinian side.al-Qawuqji, 1972, [http://www.palestine-studies.org/enakba/Memoirs/Al%20Qawuqji,%20Memoirs%201948_Pt%202.pdf "Memoirs, 1948, Part II" ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718144415/http://www.palestine-studies.org/enakba/Memoirs/Al%20Qawuqji,%20Memoirs%201948_Pt%202.pdf |date=18 July 2011 }}, Dispatch 9/5 1948, Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 181

However, according to Haganah sources, the forces of the Alexandroni Brigade "raided the village on 9 May 1948, killed four Arabs and blew up 55 houses".Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA244 244], note 624: Tiroshi (Eitan)´to HIS-AD, 3 May 1948, IDFA 6400\49\\66; and Logbook, entry for 9 May 1948, IDFA 665\51\\1. According to Morris, the remaining villagers probably left at this time.Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA244 244] Following the war the area was incorporated into the State of Israel, with the kibbutz of Regavim established on the village's former lands in 1949.

Khalidi described the place in 1992:

Stone rubble is strewn about the site, which is covered with thorns, fig trees, and cactus. Part of the adjacent land is used by Israelis as pasture and the other part is cultivated.

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• [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Haifa/Qannir/index.html Welcome To Qannir]
• [http://www.zochrot.org/en/village/49452 Qannir], Zochrot
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• [http://www.alnakba.org/villages/haifa/qannir.htm Qannir] from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center

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