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(Redirected from Khiyam al-Wali) Village in Safad, Mandatory Palestine
Khiyam al-Walid خيام الوليد
Village
Khiyam al-Walid was located on the eastern edge of the Hula ValleyKhiyam al-Walid was located on the eastern edge of the Hula Valley
Etymology: "the tents of al-Walid"
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Khiyam al-Walid (click the buttons)
Khiyam al-Walid is located in Mandatory PalestineKhiyam al-WalidKhiyam al-WalidLocation within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°08′39″N 35°39′14″E / 33.14417°N 35.65389°E / 33.14417; 35.65389
Palestine grid211/282
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 1, 1948
Area
 • Total4,215 dunams (4.215 km or 1.627 sq mi)
Population
 • Total280
Cause(s) of depopulationFear of being caught up in the fighting
Current LocalitiesLehavot HaBashan

Khiyam al-Walid (Arabic: خيام الوليد) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict located 25.5 kilometers (15.8 mi) northeast of Safad along the Syrian border. It was on situated on a hill 150 meters (490 ft) above sea level on the eastern edge of the Hula Valley. In 1945, there were 280 predominantly Muslim inhabitants. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War.

History

The name of the village in Arabic is translated as "the tents of al-Walid", which may refer to the Arab Muslim commander Khalid ibn al-Walid (d. 642). According to local tradition, a shrine and the tomb of the sage Shaykh ibn al-Walid was located in the village mosque.

British Mandate era

In the 1931 census of Palestine the population of Khiyam al-Walid was 181, all Muslims, in a total of 42 houses.

Khiyam al Walid was classified as a hamlet by the Palestine Index Gazeteer. During the British Mandate period, many of the houses were situated along the road to the nearby village of az-Zawiya. There was a good water source to the east, and the village consequently expanded in that direction. In a 1945 survey, the village was made up of a total 4,215 dunams. Despite its entire population being Arab, 92% of its land was Jewish-owned.

Types of land use in dunams in the village in the 1945 statistics:

Land Usage Arab Jewish
Irrigated and plantation 153 2,599
Cereal 0 502
Cultivable 153 3,101
Urban
Non-cultivable 8 800

The land ownership of the village before occupation in dunams:

Owner Dunams
Arab 161
Jewish 3,901
Public 153
Total 4,215
Khiyam al-Walid 1945
Lehavot HaBashan under construction on Khiyam al-Walid land 1945

1948, aftermath

According to an Israeli military report in June 1948, the residents fled on May 1 in anticipation of an attack by Israeli forces. It was occupied by the end of may in Operation Yiftach.

Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi wrote of the remains of the village in 1992, saying "The site is deserted and overgrown with grass and thorns. There are a few carob trees, piles of stones, and crumbled terraces."

References

  1. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
  2. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p.70
  3. Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #22. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  4. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p.466.
  5. Mills, 1932, p. 107
  6. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 119
  7. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 169
  8. Morris, 2004, pp. 132 note #542 on 160; 249 note #686 on 302

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