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Welcome To Abu Kishk - ابو كشك (ערב אבו כישכ)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

March 30, 1948

Distance From District

12 (km) Northeast ofJaffa

Elevation

50 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details what's new

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #6 on the map

View from satellite

Attacking Units

Irgun Zvai Leurni (IZL or ETZEL)

Acts of Terror

By the end of March 1948, the IZL (Irgun Zvai Leumi) infiltrated into the village and kidnapped five of the village leaders.

Exodus Cause

Fear of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting

Village Temains

The village wasmostly destroyed with the exception of two houses

Ethnically Cleansing

Either in December 1947 or January 1948 the leaders ofal-ShaykhMuwannis,al-Mas'udiyya,al-Jammasin,and themukhtars of'Arab Abu Kishk andIjlilmet with Haganah representative in the house of Avraham Schapira in Petah Tikvaand expressed desire for peace. Despite the commitment of these villages not harborany Arab Liberation Armies or local Arab Militia, they were all completely ethnicallycleansed. Early April 1948, village inhabitants were terrorized into fleeing thevillage soon after the kidnapping of their village leaders.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	17,121
Jewish	901
Public	448
**Total	18,470

*Sourced from British Mandate'sVillage Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves	2,487	437
Irrigated & Plantation	226	0
Planted W/ Cereal	14,018	447
Arable	16,731	884
Non-Arable	838	17

*Sourced from British Mandate'sVillage Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1931	1,007
1945	1,900
1948	2,204
Est. Refugees 1998	13,535

*Sourced from British Mandate'sVillage Statisitics

Near By Towns what's new

Arab al-Shubaki ↖	Tabsur ↑ (N)	Biyar 'Adas ↗
Ijlil al-Qibliyya ←	Abu Kishk	→ Zionist Colonies
↙ al-Sawalima		↘ al-Mirr

Schools

Abu Kishk had an elementary school founded in 1925, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of 108 students including 9 girls.

Shrines / Maqams

Abu Kishk contained a shrine forShaykh Sa'd located between Abu Kishk and the neighboring village of al-Sawalima.

NearbyWadies & Rivers

Abu Kishk is situated 2 km northwest of theal-'Awja River.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

City of Hertzeliyya

Village Before Nakba

The village was situated in a flat area on the central coastal plain, about 2 km northwest of the al-'Awja River and 12 northeast fromJaffa. A secondary road linked it to the Jaffa-Haifa highway, and similar roads connected it to the neighboring villages.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Abu Kishk probably fell into Zionist hands some time before the end of the British Mandate on 15 May 1948. Palestinian historian'Arif al-'Arif indicated that by this time, Zionist forces were in control of the whole coastal area between Haifa and Tel Aviv. Abu Kishk may have been affected by events in the adjacent village of al-Shaykh Muwannis, both villages were located just beyond the borders of Tel Aviv and were targeted for attack early in the war. Israeli historianBenny Morris write that “the final evacuation of the area just north of Tel Aviv was prompted in large measure by IZL (Irgun Zvai Leumi) actions.” An earlier agreement between the villages ofJaffa and the Haganah to observe a truce in the area did not deter the IZL from striking at the community leaders. The IZL infiltrated into the village at the end of March and kidnapped five of the village leaders. The attack prompted a large flight of people from the surrounding coastal area.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The village site lies in the suburbs of the expanding town of Hertzeliyya.

Village Today

A fenced-in military hardware manufacturing complex occupies the site and a lare area around it. Cactuses and almond trees grow near and overpass that has been built across the highway that runs through the complex. Outside the fence, on the southeast side of the village site, are the remnants of two houses, one of which had been a private school for the chidren of al-Sawalima.