Al-Sakhina

Al-Sakhina
Al-Sakhina
Arabic	الساخنة
Subdistrict	Baysan
Coordinates	32°30′58.74″N 35°27′44.17″E / 32.5163167°N 35.4622694°ECoordinates: 32°30′58.74″N 35°27′44.17″E / 32.5163167°N 35.4622694°E
Palestine grid	193/213
Population	820 (1945)
Date of depopulation	Not known[1]

Al-Sakhina (Arabic: الساخنة‎‎) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was located five kilometres west of Baysan on the Jalud River on its way to the Jordan River. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948 as part of Operation Gideon.

At the time of the 1931 census, al-Sakhina had 78 occupied houses and a population of 372 Muslims, one Christian, and one Jew.^[2] In 1936, a Jewish kibbutz, Tel Amal (later renamed Nir David), was established slightly to the south. The village and kibbutz together had 530 Muslims and 290 Jews in 1945.^[3]

References

1. Morris, 2004, p.xvii, village #378. Gives both date and cause of depopulation as "Not known"
2. E. Mills, ed. (1932), Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas, Jerusalem: Government of Palestine, p. 80
3. Government of Palestine, Village Statistics 1945.

Bibliography

• 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
• Morris, Benny (2004), The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6

External links

• Welcome To al-Sakhina
• Al-Sakhina, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center