Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

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Ghuwayr Abu Shusha was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 21, 1948. It was located 8 km north of Tiberias, nearby Wadi Rubadiyya.

History

In 1838 Edward Robinson found on the remains of a few dwellings, built of rough volcanic stones, some of which were still used as magazines by the Arabs of the plain. A wely with a white dome marked the spot. He found no traces of antiquity.[1]

In 1850-1851 de Saulcy saw the village, which he described as ruined. Of the village, all which remained was a few portions of wall of modern appearance, "but in the midst of these is still standing a square vaulted tower, constructed in fine blocks of Herodian workmanship, or Roman of the early empire. This tower rests against a wall of more recent character."[2]

In 1875 Victor Guérin visited and noted the little wely dedicated to Abou-Choutheh.[3]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as containing 20 Moslems, with housed built of basalt, located round a mill.[4] There were modern ruins in the village, and a number of ruined mills in the valley below.[5]

British mandate era

In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 1,240 Muslims,[6] with 8,609 dunams of land.[7] Of this, 21 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 1,377 for plantations and irrigable land, 1,848 dunams for cereals,[8] while 6 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) area.[9]

Ruins of watermills could be seen at the nearby Khirbat Abu Shusha.[10]

1948, and aftermath

The village was depopulated after a military assault on 21 and 28 April 1948.[11]

Kibbutz Ginosar presently occupies part of what was village land; so does Livnim, established in 1982 ca. 1 km northwest of the Ghuwayr Abu Shusha site.[12]

In 1992 the village site was described: "The village site is covered with thorns and wild vegetation, including Christ's-thorn trees and cactuses. The shrine of Shaykh Muhammad and the remains of a mill can be seen among piles of stones and a few olive trees. The lower-lying lands are planted in bananas and citrus, while the highlands are used as grazing areas by the Israelis."[12]

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References

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  1. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. 285-286; cited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 516
  2. ↑ Saucy, 1854, pp. 423-424
  3. ↑ Guérin, 1880, pp. 209-212
  4. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 360
  5. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 396
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  8. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 122
  9. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 172
  10. ↑ Khalidi, 1992, p. 516
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