Al-Butaymat

Al-Butaymat

البطيمات
Buteimat, al-Buteimat
Al-Butaymat البطيمات Buteimat, al-Buteimat
Village
	Etymology: "the place with the terebinths."
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	Al-Butaymat Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 32°33′12″N 35°5′38″E / 32.55333°N 35.09389°ECoordinates: 32°33′12″N 35°5′38″E / 32.55333°N 35.09389°E
Palestine grid	159/217
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Haifa
Date of depopulation	May 1948
Population (1945)
• Total	110
Cause(s) of depopulation	Fear of being caught up in the fighting
Current Localities	Gal'ed Former: Regavim

Al-Butaymat (Arabic: البطيمات‎, El Buteimât) was a Palestinian Arab village the Haifa Subdistrict, located 31 kilometers (19 mi) southeast of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948, under the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek.

History[]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found "traces of ruins" here.^[7]

A Haifa man, named Mustafa al-Khalil acquired land in among other places, Al-Butaymat, in the late Ottoman era.^[8]

British Mandate era[]

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ‘’Al Buteimat’’ had a population 137, all Muslims,^[9] decreasing in the 1931 census to 112 Muslims, in a total of 29 houses.^[10]

In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 110 Muslims,^[2] and they had 3,832 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.^[3] Of this, 8 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 2,508 for cereals,^[11] while 4 dunams were built-up (urban) land.^[12]

In 1945 the kibbutz of Gal'ed was established on what was traditionally village land.^[5]

Al-Butaymat 1942 1:20,000
Al-Butaymat 1945 1:250,000

1948 and aftermath[]

Benny Morris gives May 1948 as depopulation date, and "Fear of being caught up in the fighting" as the cause, but with a question mark.^[4]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]

In 1992 the village site was described: "The site is fenced in, overgrown with grass and cactuses. There are no traces of houses except for adobe bricks scattered around the site. Most of the surrounding lands are used as grazing areas, but some of them are cultivated."^[5]

References[]

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 154
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 13
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 47 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Morris, 2004, p. xviii village #156. Also gives cause of depopulation, but cause indicated in brackets by a question mark.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Khalidi, 1992, p. 157
^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, settlement #15, July, 1948. Moved to the land of Qannir in 1949.
^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 71
^ Yazbak, 1998, p. 142
^ Barron, 1923, Table xi, Sub-district of Haifa, p. 34
^ Mills, 1932, p. 89
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 89 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 139 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
^ Morris, 2004, p. 132
^ Morris, 2004, p. 314
^ Morris, 2004, p. 350
^ Morris, 2004, p. 406

Bibliography[]

Avneri, Aryeh L. (1984). The claim of dispossession: Jewish land-settlement and the Arabs, 1878-1948 (Illustrated ed.). Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-0-87855-964-0.
Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
Benvenisti, M. (2002). Sacred landscape: the buried history of the Holy Land since 1948 (Illustrated ed.). University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-23422-2.
Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. Archived from the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
Khalidi, W. (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.
Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
Yazbak, M. (1998). Haifa in the late Ottoman period, 1864-1914: a Muslim town in transition (Illustrated ed.). BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-11051-9.

External links[]

Welcome To al-Butaymat
al-Butaymat, Zochrot
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons
al-Butaymat from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center

[Palmer154-1] Palmer, 1881, p. 154

[DoS1945p13-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 13

[Hadawip47-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 47 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine

[Morris156-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b Morris, 2004, p. xviii village #156. Also gives cause of depopulation, but cause indicated in brackets by a question mark.

[Khalidi157-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Khalidi, 1992, p. 157

[Morris#15-6] Morris, 2004, p. xx, settlement #15, July, 1948. Moved to the land of Qannir in 1949.

[7] Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 71

[8] Yazbak, 1998, p. 142

[Census1922-9] Barron, 1923, Table xi, Sub-district of Haifa, p. 34

[Census1931-10] Mills, 1932, p. 89

[11] Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 89 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine

[12] Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 139 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine

[13] Morris, 2004, p. 132

[14] Morris, 2004, p. 314

[15] Morris, 2004, p. 350

[16] Morris, 2004, p. 406

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