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33°12′52″N 35°32′41″E / 33.21444°N 35.54472°E / 33.21444; 35.54472 Margaliot (Template:Lang-he-n; Template:Lang-ar) is a moshav in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel, located along the border with Lebanon, near the town of Kiryat Shmona. It is part of the Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council.

Château Neuf, the Crusader Fortress
entry plate
partial view of the kibbutz

Margaliot was established over the Lebanese town of Hunin, which is part of the Seven Lebanese Villages across the Lebanese/Palestinian border, in 1951 by Jewish immigrants from Yemen and Iraq. It was renamed after Chaim Margaliot Klaverisky, who headed the Jewish Colonization Association in the Galilee in the early twentieth century, and participated in the establishment of several Jewish settlements in the region. Today the residents number around 300-400, most of them being Jews from Iranian Kurdistan. Today the name Hunin refers to the whole area covering moshav Margaliot and the kibbutz Misgav Am. The town of Margaliot, is however still referred to as Hunin by neighboring Arab states (especially Lebanon and Palestine). At the side of the road leading to the moshav, Château Neuf (New Castle) stands. A Crusader fortress which was erected during the Crusader period (1099-1291 CE), that was used during the fighting against Muslim. From Château Neuf, it's possible to view Nimrod Fortress and several other fortresses in the area.

Lebanese identity of Margaliot

The Syria-Lebanon-Palestine boundary was a product of the post-World War I Anglo-French partition of Ottoman Syria. British forces had advanced to a position at Tel Hazor against Turkish troops in 1918 and wished to incorporate all the sources of the Jordan River within the British controlled Palestine. Following the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and the unratified and later annulled Treaty of Sèvres, stemming from the San Remo conference, the 1920 boundary extended the British controlled area to north of the Sykes Picot line, a straight line between the mid point of the Sea of Galilee and Nahariya. The international boundary between Palestine and Lebanon was finally agreed by Great Britain and France in 1923 in conjunction with the Treaty of Lausanne, after Britain had been given a League of Nations mandate for Palestine in 1922. In April 1924, Hunin, along with 7 other villages and an estimated 20 other settlements, were transferred from the French Mandate of Lebanon to the British mandate of Palestine by France. Margaliot (Hunin) was claimed by Britain's Zionist allies; while, after the independence of Lebanon, the new Lebanese government asked for the return of this village and the rest of the villages and settlements. As of today, the Lebanese government still demands the return of these lands.

Events of 1948

Hunin was a Shi'ite Muslim village with a population of 1620 recorded in 1945. A Palmach raid in May 1948 led to many of the inhabitants fleeing to Lebanon, leaving 400 remaining in the village. In July 1948 four of the women of the village were raped and murdered by IDF soldiers. During a meeting in August 1948, when only 400 villagers remained in Hunin, the mukhtars of Hunin and some other Shi'ite villages met with the Jews of kibbutz Kfar Giladi to try to make a peace agreement with the state of Israel. They promised to live as loyal citizens (minority under Jewish rule) and renounce Arab national aspirations. With the support of the local Jews, a report was made by the Department of Minorities recommending that such an agreement be reached with the 4,700 or so Shi'ites in the region to promote friendly relations with southern Lebanon, to take advantage of the Shi'ites' poor relationship with the majority Sunnis, and to enhance the prospect of a future extension of the border. This proposal was not accepted, despite the support of the minorities minister Bekhor Shitreet.

In August some more inhabitants of Hunin were forced to flee by the IDF. On September the 3rd 1948, the IDF raided the village blowing up 20 houses, killing a son of the mukhtar and 19 others and expelling the remaining villagers.

The Israeli Government has not given up on the issue though, and the status of Hunin as an Arab-Israeli village is still as of 2007, a possibility.

Footnotes

  1. Fromkin, David (1989). A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. New York: Owl, ISBN 0-8050-6884-8.
  2. MacMillan, Margaret (2001) Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War J. Murray, ISBN 0719559391 pp 392-420
  3. Exchange of Notes Constituting an Agreement respecting the boundary line between Syria and Palestine from the Mediterranean to El Hammé. Paris, March 7, 1923.
  4. http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/991223/1999122311.html
  5. http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010525/2001052504.html
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Sindawi was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Morris, Benny, (second edition 2004 third printing 2006) The Birth Of The Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-00967-7 p 249

See also

External links

Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council
Moshavim
Community settlements

Template:District of Safad

Palestinian Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus by subdistrict
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