The District of Haifa

Abu Shusha
Israeli historian Benny Morris indicates that those villagers who had not feld were expelled and that each village was systematically destroyed on the night it was occupied. The only remaining sign of the village is the debris of houses overgrown with cactuses. The grain mill is gone.

Abu Zurayq
The site is overgrown with cactus plants and fig and olive trees. The level lands in the vicinity are used for agriculture and pasture.

Arab Al-Fuqara'
The northwestern sections of the settlement of Chadera occupy the site. These include a small neighborhood known as Newe Chayyim. There are no landmarks or other signs of the village. Eucalyptus trees grown on the village site.

Arab Al-Nufay'at
The only traces left of the village are one house, and an old mulberry tree. The Israeli army has established a military camp that covers a large area near the site.

Arab Zahrat Al-Dumayri
The site, overgrown with grass and plants, is mostly covered with sand dunes. Some cactuses and tamarisk trees also grow there, and parts of the adjacent land are used for agriculture by Israeli farmers.

Atilt
No traces of Arab houses are left. A railroad station that used to serve the village is still in use. A prison in the vicinity was used by Israel in 1989 for holding Lebanese and Palestinian detainees.

Ayn Ghazal
The settlement of 'Ofer was established on village land, in 1950. The dilapidated shrine of Shaykh Shahada is the only standing structure on the village site. Ruins can be seen all over the site.

Ayn Hawd
The village was not destroyed; it has been an artists' colony since 1954, and is designated as a tourist site. The village mosque has been turned into a restaurant/bar, the "Bonanza". Those few villagers built a new village, also called 'Ayn Hawd, which is not legally recognized by the Israeli government and hence is denied all municipal services (including water, electricity, and roads). In the 1970s the Israeli government erected a fence around this new village in order to prevent it from expanding

Balad Al-Shaykh
A massacre was committed in Balad al-Shekh by the Haganah on 31 December 1947. 170 men from the Palmach were ordered to "encircle the village, harm the largest possible number of men, damage property, and refrain from attacking women and children. "More than 60 villagers were left for dead by the attackers, and despite the last clause in the orders, women and children were counted among the victims. Zionist immigrants settled in the village in 1949 and renamed it Tel Chanan; this is now part of Nesher township. The cemetery is visible and is in a state of neglect.

Barrat Qisarya
Piles of rubble and stone from the last remaining group of houses lie in one of the squares of the town of Or 'Aqiva.

Burayka
The village site is a closed, military-industrial area.

Khirbat Al-Burj
The settlement of Binyamina was established in 1922 near the village site. Much of the site is covered by rubble, which lies amid the grass and cactus plants. The settlement of Even Yitzchaq, also known as Gal'ed, was established west of the village site on village lands. The site is fenced in, overgrown with grass and cactuses. There are no traces of houses except for adobe bricks scattered around the site.

Al-Butaymat
No Information available.

Daliyat Al-Rawha'
Clusters of cactus a large portion of the site. A few meters to the north of this tree there are stones strewn among the cactus plants; these most likely are the remains of the village cemetery. At the southern edge of the site, in the wadi, are the walls of a house with stone floors.

Khirbat Al-Damun
All that is left of the village is a building that is now used as a prison. The land is forested currently used by Israelis for recreation.

Al-Ghubayya Al-Fawqa
The site is overgrown with cactuses and fig. The debris of the houses is visible among the vegetation.

Al-Ghubayya Al-Tahta
No traces of houses can be identified; the Israeli settlement of Midrakh 'Oz, along with its playgrounds and race tracks, has completely occupied the site.

Hawsha
The village has been destroyed, and the fenced-in area has been declared an archaeological site. Not one house from the village has been left intact.

Ijzim
Along with 'Ayn Ghazal and Jaba', Ijzim was part of a triangular region south of Haifa that held out under Israeli attack until late July 1948. The History of the War of Independence notes that these "daring and stubborn" villages "did not merely stand fast, but continued to block our transportation along the coastal road". Israel established the settlement of Kerem Maharal on the village site in 1949. The village has been partially destroyed. The mosque has been allowed to deteriorate, but several houses are still in use. The meeting house (diwan) of Mas'ud al-Madi, which is a two-story structure dating to the eighteenth century, has been converted into a museum. The school has been turned into a synagogue and the cafى into a post office

Jaba'
In 1949, Israel established the settlement of Geva' Karmel on village land. Piles of stone rubble can be seen on the site. A shrine is still standing on an elevated part of it. Pine forests grow over the land in the vicinity, which is fenced in by barbed wire. Around the village are the remains of tombs. Israelis use part of the site as grazing land.

Al-Jalma
A military camp occupies the area, which is covered by eucalyptus trees.

Kabara
Ma'agan Mikha'el and Beyt Chananya were built on village lands in 1949 and 1950, respectively, after the village had been depopulated. The rubble from the village houses has been moved up the slope where it is now visible, covered with dirt. Cactuses and banana trees, as well as isolated fig, grow on the site.

Al-Kafrayn
The site and its surrounding area are divided between a military training camp and a cow pasture.

Kafr Lam
No Information available.

Al-Kasayir, Khirbat
The remains of bulldozed houses and collapsed cement walls, some covered with dirt, are scattered about the site

Khubbayza
All that remains on the site is stone debris, scattered among thorny bushes, grass, and cactuses. Part of the surrounding land is cultivated and the rest serves as pasture.

Khirbat Lid
Israelis established the settlement of ha-Yogev in 1949. Piles of stones, scattered across the ground near several large eucalyptus and olive trees, are all that remain of village.

Khirbat Al-Manara
Some of the village lands are used by the settlement of 'Ofer, which was established in 1950. On another portion of its lands, a regional school was built which serves the nearby settlement of Kerem Maharal. The regional school uses a fenced-in area on part of the site.

Al-Mansi
The remains of the school and the mosque are still standing in the midst of thick undergrowth. The agricultural kibbutz of Midrakh 'Oz occupies part of the adjacent land. The rest is used for growing avocado trees and raising poultry and cattle.

Khirbat Al-Mansura
No traces of the houses remain. Storage houses for grain have been built 200 m south of the site.

Al-Mazar
Rubble of stone houses is scattered over the site. The site is also marked by segments of standing stone walls and the debris of the mosque, which stood until 1983.

Al-Naghnaghiyya
The remains of houses are scattered on the slope of one hill. The site, traversed by the Haifa-Megiddo highway and partly occupied by an Israeli soccer field, is difficult to identify.

Qannir
The settlement of Regavim was established on village lands in 1949. Stone rubble is strewn about the site, which is covered with thorns, fig trees, and cactus. Israelis use part of the adjacent land as pasture and the other part is cultivated.

Qira
Rubble from village homes can be seen among the bushes and pine trees that have been planted on the village site

Qisarya
No Information available.

Qumbaza
The entire area is reserved for military training and is inaccessible to the public

Al-Rihaniyya
The rubble of the houses lies in piles that are covered with dirt, bushes, and thorns. Large sections of the adjacent land are used for agriculture.

Sabbarin
The settlement of Ramot Menashe built in 1948, is on village lands, northeast of the site. Israeli settlers established the settlement of 'Ammiqam in 1950, 1 km south of the village site, on village land. The large site, strewn with stone debris of houses, is overgrown with wild thorns. Some of the surrounding lands are used by Israelis as pasture and for growing fruit trees.

Al-Sarafand
Only one house, a large structure with two arches in front has been spared. The Tel-Aviv-Haifa highway crosses part of the site; another part, fenced in with barbed wire, is overgrown with thorns and cactuses.

Khirbat Al-Sarkas
Cactuses and spikes of grain are scattered across the site; there are no traces of any landmarks or houses. The land near the site is used by Israeli farmers for raising cattle and growing citrus.

Khirbat  Sa'sa'
The ruins of two walls (formerly parts of a building) are visible at the site, which has been fenced in with barbed wire. The surrounding coastal lands are used by Israeli farmers for growing vegetables and fruit, particularly bananas.

Al-Sawamir
The ruins of two walls (formerly parts of a building) are visible at the site, which has been fenced in with barbed wire. The surrounding coastal lands are used by Israeli farmers for growing vegetables and fruit, particularly bananas.

Khirbat  Al-Shuna
The site is fenced in and the few standing houses have been renovated and turned into tourist facilities

Al-Sindiyana
The settlement of Avi'el was established in 1949 on village lands. The site is fenced in with barbed wire.

Al-Tantura
In June of 1948, Zionist immigrants from the United States and Poland established the kibbuts of Nachsholim, on village lands. The settlement of Dor, east of site, was established by Zionist immigrants from Greece in 1949. Only a shrine, a fortress, an ancient well and a few of the houses remain. The site has been turned into an Israeli recreation area with swimming facilities. See Palestinian massacres section.

Al-Tira
The village site is partly occupied by and Israeli settlement. Some of the houses remain standing. The cemetery is unkempt and there are several broken gravestones. The remains of two shrines are visible and the school is used by Israeli students.

Umm al-Shawf
Giv'at Nili founded in 1953, is on village lands. Piles of stone debris from the houses are scattered about the site, which is overgrown with cactuses, thorns, and bushes. The shrine of Shaykh 'Abk Allah still stands.

Umm Al-Zinat
The site is occupied by Kibbutz Barqay. Only two village houses remain. One of them has a large entrance that is used today as a gate for the Kibbutz's swimming pool.

Wa'arat Al-Sarris
The neighborhood of Amidar Aleph, a part of the Jewish settlement of Qiryat Atta, occupies the site. Four partly demolished houses remain; six other houses are being used by Jewish families.

Wadi Ara
No Information available.

Yajur
No traces of the houses remain on the site, which is marked by numerous fig trees and a smaller number of olive trees. Cement factories occupy part of the surrounding lands. The Israeli settlement of Yajur occupies other parts of the land and uses them for agriculture


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