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Israeli occupation:
Mid-April 1948.
Arab Liberation Army
(headed by Fawzi al-Qawqgi) battalion made up of Syrian and
Palestine Druze volunteers. The village has been completely
destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.
Hawsha inhabitants were
completely ethnically cleansed. Hawsha may have been named after al-nabi
Hushan, and for whom the village maintained a shrine/ Maqam for.
There was a shrine named
Maqam for a Nabi Hushan.
Hawsha contained a
number of ancient ruins which consisted of the foundations of
buildings, a maqam (shrine) for a Nabi Hushan, a well, rock-cut
tombs, and a mosaic floor.
Israeli settlements on
town lands: Usha, Arab township of Shefa ‘Amr and Ramat Yochanan
Land Ownership before
occupation
Ethnic
Group Land Ownership (dunums)
Arab
0
Jewish 894
Public
7
Total
901
Population before Occupation
Year
Population
1931
202 Arabs
1945
400 Arabs and 180 Jews
Number of houses in 1931
they were 53.
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