al-Dirbashiyya
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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Al-Dirbashiyya
| native_name = الدرباشية
| native_name_lang = ar
| other_name = Darbashiya, alMorris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR16 xvi], village #29. Gives date and cause of depopulation with an "?"
| settlement_type = Village
| pushpin_map = Mandatory Palestine | pushpin_map_caption = Location within Mandatory Palestine | image_map = {{Historical map series|default=1|date1=1940s|date2=modern|date3=1940s with modern overlay|width=225|name=al-Dirbashiyya}} | map_caption = A series of historical maps of the area around {{PAGENAME}} (click the buttons)
| pushpin_mapsize = 200
| coordinates = {{coord|33|05|20|N|35|38|49|E|type:city_region:PS|display=inline,title}}
| grid_name = Palestine grid
| grid_position = 210/277
| subdivision_type = Geopolitical entity
| subdivision_name = Mandatory Palestine
| subdivision_type1 = Subdistrict
| subdivision_name1 = Safad
| established_title1 = Date of depopulation
| established_date1 = May, 1948
| established_title2 = Repopulated dates
| unit_pref = dunam
| area_total_dunam = 2,883
| population_as_of = 1945
| population_total = 310Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p09.jpg 9]Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Safad/Page-069.jpg 69] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604235924/http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Safad/Page-069.jpg |date=2011-06-04 }}
| blank_name_sec1 = Cause(s) of depopulation
}}
Al-Dirbashiyya ({{langx|ar|الدرباشية }}) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 10, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 20 km northeast of Safad in the Hula Valley, bordering Hula Lake.
Location
The village was located on the lower slopes of the Golan Heights near the border with Syria overlooking the Hula Valley. The lands to the west of the village were mainly marshland, although there were a few palm trees, and wooded areas to the south.
A shrine named after a Muslim sage, named al-Samadi, was located between the village and Hula Lake.Khalidi, 1992, pp. 446-447
History
The Palestine Index Gazetteer classified the village as a hamlet and during the British Mandate the British built a police station.
The inhabitants mainly earned their living from the cultivation of vegetables.
In the 1945 statistics Ed Darbashiya had a population of 310 Muslims, with a total of 2,883 dunam of land. Of this, they used 2,763 dunums for plantations and irrigable land,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Safad/Page-118.jpg 118] while 120 dunams were classified as non-uncultivable land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Safad/Page-168.jpg 168]
=Post 1948=
Historians say that the details about the occupation of the village (during the Nakba) remain unclear. However, it is known that it was captured during Operation Yiftach in May 1948.{{Cite web |title=al-Dirbashiyya — الدِرْباشِيَّة |url=https://www.palquest.org/en/place/16805/al-dirbashiyya |access-date=2023-11-12 |website=Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question – palquest |language=en}}
In 1992, the village site was described thus by historian Walid Khalidi: "The rubble of destroyed houses is scattered across the village site. The site also contains a segment of a cement-lined irrigation canal, and the remains of terraces in some fields. The village lands, which are used mainly as pastures, are covered with grass, cactus plants, and Christ’s-thorn and eucalyptus trees."Khalidi, 1992, p. 447
References
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book|title=Village Statistics, April, 1945 |url=http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/Hebrew/library/Pages/BookReader.aspx?pid=856390|author=Department of Statistics|year=1945|publisher=Government of Palestine}}
- {{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|access-date=2009-08-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181208215837/http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html|archive-date=2018-12-08|url-status=dead}}
- {{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}}
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External links
- [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Safad/al-Dirbashiyya/index.html Welcome To al-Dirbashiyya]
- [https://www.zochrot.org/en/village/49098 al-Dirbashiyya], Zochrot
- [http://www.villagesofpalestine.com/alDirbashiyya.htm al-Dirbashiyya], Villages of Palestine
{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War}}
Category:Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War