Ghuwayr_Abu_Shusha

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

Place in Tiberias, Mandatory Palestine

This article is about the former Palestinian village in Tiberias Sub-district. For the former Palestinian village in Haifa Sub-district, see Abu Shusha, Haifa. For the former Palestinian village in Ramle Sub-district, see Abu Shusha.

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.

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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.[6]

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."[7]

In 1875 Victor Guérin visited and noted the little wely dedicated to Abou-Choutheh.[8]

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.[9] There were modern ruins in the village, and a number of ruined mills in the valley below.[10]

British mandate era

In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 1,240 Muslims,[4] with 8,609 dunams of land.[3] Of this, 21 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 1,377 for plantations and irrigable land, 1,848 dunams for cereals,[11] while 6 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) area.[12]

Ruins of watermills could be seen at the nearby Khirbat Abu Shusha.[13]

1948, and aftermath

The village was depopulated after a military assault on 21 and 28 April 1948.[2]

Ginosar presently occupy part of what was village land, so does Livnim, established in 1982 ca. 1 km northwest of the Ghuwayr Abu Shusha site.[5]

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."[5]

  • Maqam sheikh Abu Shusha, 2015
  • Maqam sheikh Abu Shusha, 2015
  • Maqam sheikh Abu Shusha, 2015

References

  1. [1]
    Palmer, 1881, p. 128
  2. [2]
    Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #93. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  3. [3]
    Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 72
  4. [4]
    Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12
  5. [5]
    Khalidi, 1992, p. 517
  6. [6]
    Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. 285-286; cited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 516
  7. [7]
    Saucy, 1854, pp. 423-424
  8. [8]
    Guérin, 1880, pp. 209-212
  9. [9]
    Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 360
  10. [10]
    Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 396
  11. [11]
    Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 122
  12. [12]
    Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 172
  13. [13]
    Khalidi, 1992, p. 516

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