Al-Bassa
البصة | |
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  Al-Bassa Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°04′39″N 35°08′39″E / 33.07750°N 35.14417°E | |
| Palestine grid | 164/276 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Acre |
| Date of depopulation | 14 May 1948[3] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 25,258 dunams (25.2 km2 or 9.7 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 2,950[1][2] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
| Secondary cause | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Betzet,[4] Rosh HaNiqra,[4] Shlomi,[4][5] Tzahal,[4][6] Matzuva[4] |
al-Bassa (Arabic: البصة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Mandatory Palestine's Acre Subdistrict. It was situated close to the Lebanese border, 19 kilometers (12 mi) north of the district capital, Acre, and 65 meters (213 ft) above sea level.
During the 1948 Palestine War the village was stormed by Haganah troops in May 1948 and almost completely razed. Its residents were either internally displaced or expelled to neighboring countries as part of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion.[7] Today, the ruins of the village are in the northern quarters of the moshav of Shlomi.[8]
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 40 Archived 2018-09-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #78. Also gives cause(s) of depopulation.
- ^ a b c d e Khalidi, 1992, pp. 8-9
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxii, settlement #153, in 1949-50.
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxii, settlement #184, in 1949.
- ^ Bardi, Ariel Sophia (March 2016). "The "Architectural Cleansing" of Palestine". American Anthropologist. 118 (1): 165–171. doi:10.1111/aman.12520.
- ^ "El Bassah". antiquities.org.il. Retrieved 2022-12-27.