Yarda, Safad
| Yarda | |
|---|---|
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Well at Yarda | |
  Yarda | |
| Name meaning | Kh. Wakkâs, the ruin of the man with a broken neck[1] |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Coordinates | 33°0′27″N 35°35′38″E / 33.00750°N 35.59389°ECoordinates: 33°0′27″N 35°35′38″E / 33.00750°N 35.59389°E |
| Palestine grid | 205/268 |
| Population | 20[2][3] (1945) |
| Current localities | Ayyelet ha-Shahar[4] and Mishmar ha-Yarden[4] |
Yarda was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion during Operation Yiftach. It was located 10.5 km northeast of Safad. The area is now part of Israel.
History
The Canaanites referred to the village as Hasur. Khirbat Waqqas was located west-northwest of the village.
In 1875, during the late Ottoman era, Victor Guérin described it: 'Near a small enclosure, in the centre of which is a broken column consecrated to a santon, are shown the remains of an edifice oriented east and west, once probably a church. It was ornamented with monolithic columns in ordinary limestone, some broken pieces of which are still lying about. Other similar fragments are found in the neighbouring houses. Here and there I remarked cut stones, which no doubt belonged to this monument. A little to the south, a hillock is also covered with ruins of houses.'[5]
In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found at Kh. Wakkas only cattle-sheds.[6]
British Mandate era
In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Yarda had a population of 13 Muslims, in a total of 3 houses.[7]
In 1945, the population was 20 Muslims.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 86
- 1 2 Department of Statistics, 1945, pp. 09, 11
- 1 2 Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69
- 1 2 Khalidi, 1992, p. 504
- ↑ Guérin, 1880, pp. 363-368; as translated in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 248
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 248
- ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 111
Bibliography
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Guérin, Victor (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- 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.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
- Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
External links
- Welcome to Yarda
- Yarda, Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, map 4: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Yarda, at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
- Yarda, Dr. Khalil Rizk.
