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| Kafr Lam District of Haifa كفر لام - כפר לאם Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
July 16, 1948
Distance from district center
21.5 (km) South West of Haifa
Elevation from the sea
25 (meters)
Map location
See location number #19 on the map
Israeli military operation
Possibly the Coastal Clearing Operation
Village defenders
Local Palestinian militia, some Arab Liberation Army volunteers, and some support from the Iraqi Army in Tulkarm.
Refugees' migration route
The refugees were mostly expelled to the Triangle area and others to nearby POW camps.
Exodus Cause
Military assault by Jewish troops
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisThe village has been mostly destroyed with the exception of two village house (one of them for Ahmad Bey Khalil).
Ethnically cleansing
by IsraelisKafr Lam inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
5,104
Jewish
0
Public
1,734
Total
6,838
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Irrigated & Plantation
75
Planted W/ Cereal
5,052
Built up
14
Cultivable
5,127
Non-Cultivable
1,697
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
19th century
300
1931
215
1945
340
1948
394
Est. Refugees 1998
2,422
Number of houses
In (1931): 50 (includes Kafr Lam Station)
Town's name through history
The Crusaders may have referred to Kafr Lam with same name as the nearby castle of Cafarlet.
Schools
Kafr Lam had an elementary school for boys, which was founded by the Ottoman in 1882, but it was later closed during the British Mandate period.
Religious institutions
One mosque
Water supplies
Kafr Lam had five wells which supplied it with its drinking water needs.
Archeological sites
Kafr Lam containes Crusader's (called Cafarlet) fortress and stone quarries.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
'En Ayyala and ha-Bonim
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The abandoned Crusader fortress and several houses are still standing. One house, that of Ahmad Bey Khalil, has been converted into a school; another is being used as an Israeli post office.
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