Khirbat al-Sarkas
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| Khirbat al-Sarkas | |
| Arabic | خربة السركس |
| Name Meaning | lit. "The ruins of the Circassians" |
| Also Spelled | Khirbet as Sarkas |
| District | Haifa |
| Population | 383 (1931) |
| Jurisdiction | ? dunams |
| Date of depopulation | 20 - 22 April 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Explusion by Jewish forces |
| Current localities | Gan Shemu'el, Talmey El'azar |
Khirbat al-Sarkas (Arabic: خربة السركس) was a village in Palestine, located 42 kilometres south of Haifa. It was founded by Circassians from Russia who were expelled from their country by the armies of the Czar in the 19th century.[1]
Though the Arab Higher Command had ordered the evacuation of the village's women and children three times prior to April 1948, the villagers did not leave.[2] Described by Benny Morris as "a friendly village", it was nonetheless one of the villages depopulated at the order of the Israeli Haganah, per their policy to clear the coastal plain of Arab villages in the lead up to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[2] The women and children left between 20 April and 22 April 1948, and the men a few days later.[2]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Welcome to Khirbat al-Sarkas. Palestine Remembered. Retrieved on 2007-12-18.
- ^ a b c Benny Morris (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press, 245. ISBN 0-521-00967-7.
