Tall al-Shawk
Tall al-Shawk | |
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Arabic | تل الشوك |
Also spelled | Tall al Shauk[1] |
Subdistrict | Baysan |
Palestine grid | 193/211 |
Population | 120 (1945) |
Date of depopulation | May 12, 1948[1] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
Tall al-Shawk (Arabic: تل الشوك) was a Palestinian village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948 as part of Operation Gideon. It was located five km west of Baysan between the al-Januna'in River to the north and Wadi al-Jawsaq to the south. The village was built above an ancient archeological site and granite columns remain.
History
At the time of the 1931 census, Tall esh Shauk had 11 occupied houses and a population of 41 Muslims.[2]
In 1945, the village had a population of 120.
References
Bibliography
- Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center
- Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
Coordinates: 32°29′49″N 35°27′43″E / 32.49694°N 35.46194°E
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