Abu Shusha
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Abu Shusha (Haifa District)
| Abu Shusha | |
 Abu Shusha
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| Arabic | |
| District | Haifa |
| Coordinates | 32°36′50.95″N 35°08′16.45″E / 32.6141528°N 35.1379028°ECoordinates: 32°36′50.95″N 35°08′16.45″E / 32.6141528°N 35.1379028°E |
| Population | 720 (1945) |
| Area | |
| Date of depopulation | 9–10 April 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Abu Shusha was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 9, 1948 under the Battle for Mishmar ha-'Emeq.
As of 1945 it had a population of 720.
References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p.xviii, village #152. Also gives cause of depopulation.
Bibliography
- Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener (1881): The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology. London:Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 2 (p.41)
- Simha Flapan, "The Palestinian Exodus of 1948" in 16, no. 4 (Sum. 87): 3-26. Simha Flapan records HaShomer HaTzair member Eliezer Bauer, who was also a member of the Mapam Arab Department reporting during a discussion that the villagers of Abu Zrik and Abu Shusha were arrested or driven out and the villages were then destroyed.
- Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html
- 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 0-521-00967-7, 9780521009676
External links
- Welcome To Abu Shusha
- Abu Shusha from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
- Abu Shusha - District of Haifa, dr Khalidi
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