Wadi Ara (village)

Wadi Ara (village)

Infobox Former Arab villages in Palestine
name=Wadi Ara


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arname=وادي عارة
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district=hf
population=230
popyear=1945
area=9,800
areakm=9.8
cause=Mfact|date=May 2008
curlocl=Ein Iron
date=February 27, 1948-July 1949

Wadi Ara ( _ar. وادي عارة) is a former Palestinian village located 38.5km south of the Israeli city of Haifa. It is named after the nearby stream that is known in Arabic as Wadi 'Ara. The village was particularly small with a population of 230 and a land area of approximately 9,800 dunums.

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War the village was successfully defended by Arab Liberation Army volunteers and Iraqi forces patrolling the nearby city of Tulkarm. All of the land the Iraqi Army controlled in Palestine including Wadi Ara was handed over to Jordan. Jordan under the command of King Abdullah I then ceded the entire Wadi Ara region to Israel on May 3, 1949. In March 1949 as the Iraqi forces withdrew from Palestine and handed over their positions to the smaller Jordanian legion, 3 Israeli brigades manoeuvred into threatening positions in Operation "Shin-Tav-Shin" in a form of coercive diplomacy. The operation allowed Israel to renegotiate the cease fire line in the Wadi Ara area of the Northern West Bank in a secret agreement reached on 23 March 1949 and incorporated into the General Armistice Agreement. The green line was then redrawn in blue ink on the southern map to give the the impression that a movement in the green line had been made. [The Politics of Partition; King Abdullah, The Zionists, and Palestine 1921-1951 Avi Shlaim Oxford University Press Revised Edition 2004 ISBN 019829459-x pp. 299, 312]

The Jewish towns of Ein Iron and Ma'anit are built on Wadi Ara's former jurisdiction.

Most non-Jewish residents were removed on February 271948 prior to the official founding of the modern state of Israel, those remaining were removed by the end of July 1949.

See also

* List of villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
* Wadi Ara

References

* [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Haifa/Wadi-%27Ara/index.html Wadi 'Ara] , PalestineRemembered.com, retrieved 2008-05-16


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