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The District of Tiberias
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Awlam
Nothing remain of the village buildings except stone
rubble; only a spring that was used by the villagers has been left
unchanged. The site has been made into a cow pasture, and cacti grow on
it.
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Al-Dalhamiyya
The village has been obliterated. There is a banana
grove on the site that belongs to the nearby kibbutz, Ashdot Ya’aqov.
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Ghuwayr Abu-Shusha
Ghuwayr Abu Shush: [ The village site is covered with
thorns and wild vegetation. The shrine of Sheikh Muhammad and the
remains of a mill can be seen among piles of stones and a few olive
trees. The highlands are used as grazing areas by Israelis.
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Hadatha
Stone rubble provides the only indication of the
village’s location. The surrounding lands are used by the residents of
Kfar Qish.
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Al-Hamma
The site has been converted into an Israeli tourist
park, with parking facilities, swimming pools, and a small fishing pond.
The deserted mosque still stands. The railroad station still exists.
There are three more deserted buildings next to the station, as well as
the remains of destroyed houses.
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Hittin
The Plain of Hittin was the site of the famous battle
of Hittin, in which Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi (Saladin) defeated the
Crusaders’ armies, thereby securing the entire Galilee. Hittin also was
the place where numerous prominent figures in the early Islamic period
were born or buried. 3 settlements were established on village lands.
The site is overgrown with grass, and heaps of stone are scattered
across it. The mosque is deserted. The surrounding lands of the plain
are cultivated, The shrine of al-Nabi Shu’ayb, on the slope of a hill
near the village, still stands as a holy place for Druze pilgrims.
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Kafr Sabt
Piles of stone and stone terraces provide the main
indication that the village once occupied the site.
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Lubya
The settlement of Lavi was established on the village
lands in 1949. The Lavi pine forest has been planted by the Jewish
National Fund, the body of the World Zionist Organization in charge of
land acquisition and development, and another forest has planted in the
name of the Republic of South Africa. The debris of houses is buried
under these forests. Scattered wells further mark the site. A forest and
a military museum have been established near the site in honor of the
Golani Brigade of the Israeli army
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Ma'dhar
The site has been fenced in and is used as a grazing
area by a settlemnt established on village lands.
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Al-Majdal
The settlement of Migdal is on village land. The site
is dotted with rubble. The only remaining village landmark is a
neglected shrine. The land in the vicinity is cultivated by Israelis.
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Al-Manara
The site has been levelled and is strewn with pieces
of black stone. At the site, a sign reads, “This is a historical site,
please protect it”.
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Al-Manshiyya
The site is covered with grasses and a few palm and
eucalyptus trees, no traces of building remain. The surrounding lands
are cultivated by Israelis.
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Al-Mansura
There are four Israeli settlements on village lands
Chazon, Tefachot, Kallanit, and Ravid. The site is covered with debris
and is overgrown with olive trees, cacti, and tall grass. Some truncated
walls are visible: perforated and interior steel bars are exposed,
apparently because it had been blasted apart with dynamite.
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Nasir El-Din
A section of the city of Tiberias is on the village
site. There is no visible sign of the former village. Residential
buildings that belong to the city of Tiberias have been erected on part
of the village site and land. Portions of the village land have not been
developed and are used as grazing areas by Israelis.
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Nimrin
The settlement of Achuzzat was built on village land
in 1949. The site and a major part of the lands are surrounded by a
fence.
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Al-Nuqayb
The settlement of Achuzzat was built on village land
in 1949. The site and a major part of the lands are surrounded by a
fence.
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Samakh
The native village of novelist Yahyia yakhluf, who
wrote three books on the subject. The settlements of Ma’agan, Tel
Qatzir, Massada and Sha’ar ha-Golan were established southeast of the
village site. The only remaining village landmarks are the ruins of the
railway station and a water reservoir. The settlers of Deganya ‘Alef
have built a public park for tourists, a gas station, and a factory on
the village site. The nearby lands are cultivated.
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Al-Samakiyya
The settlement of Amnon, built in 1983 on village
land. A private farm called Vered ha-Galil and the settlement of
Korazin, both built in 1983, are also on village land.
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Al-Samra
The settlement of Amnon, built in 1983 on village
land. A private farm called Vered ha-Galil and the settlement of
Korazin, both built in 1983, are also on village land.
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Al-Shajara
In mid-February 1948, as a battle flared between Arab
and Haganah forces in the Baysan Vally, Haganah forces carried out
a diversionary attack on al-Shajara, during which poet Abdelrahim
Mahmoud. There are no Israeli settlements on village lands, but a number
of settlements are quite close to the village site. Zionists established
the settlement of Sejera in 1902. Its name was taken directly from that
of al-Shajara. The settlers later changed its name to Ilaniyya, from the
Hebrew ilan (“tree”), a translation of the name of the Arab village.
Kibbutz Sde Ilan was established east of the agricultural lands of the
village in 1949. The ruins of houses and broken steel bars protrude from
beds of wild vegetation. The western part of the site and the nearby
hill are covered with cacti.
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Al-Tabigha
The village site, partly covered by thorn grass and
cacti, has piles of stones and crumbled stone walls scattered about. The
churches, monasteries, and shrines in the vicinity still stand. One part
of the surrounding land is used as a grazing area and the remainder is
cultivated by Israelis. The entire area is considered a major Israeli
tourist site.
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Al-'Ubaydiyya
The remaining section of the walls of the canal (that
provided the mill with water) is the most prominent indication of the
former existence of the village. Ruins of houses, piles of stones, the
bases of walls, terraces, and date palms can be seen on the site. The
lands around the site are cultivated mainly in cotton by Israelis.
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Wadi Al-Hamam
All that remains of the village are the debris of
houses and the remnants of walls. The site is overgrown with thorns,
grasses, and some trees. Near the site, a new village bearing the same
name has been set up by Israelis for Palestinian “internal refugees”
from the villages of the al-Hula area, especially the village of
al-Muftakhira (in Safad District). These villagers, however, do not own
any of land around the village. Some of this land is used as pasture and
some is cultivated.
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Khirbat Al-Wa'ra al-Swawda'
No traces of the houses remain. Stone terraces
provide the only indication of a former village on the site. The site
and the lands around it are used largely as grazing areas, although some
of the lands are cultivated by Israelis.
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Yaquq
Stone rubble covers the entire site. There is one
palm tree in the center and an olive grove on the edge. Part of the
surrounding land is cultivated by Israelis, while the remainder is used
as a grazing area. A canal that passes to the west is part of the
Israeli National Water Carrier, the water project that carries water
from lake Tiberias to the central coastal plains.
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