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Miska
District of Tulkarm
مسكة - מיסכה
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Town Statistics & Facts

Statistic/Fact Value

Israeli occupation date April 20, 1948

Distance from district center 15 (km) Southwest of Tulkarm

Elevation from the sea 50 (meters)

Map location See location number #15 on the map

Israeli military operation Coastal Clearing

Exodus Cause Expulsion by Jewish troops

Village remains
after destruction by Israelis Miska was completely destroyed with the exception of boys' elementary school and its mosque. It should be noted that Miska was destroyed based on the orders of a Jewish National Fund official, Yosef Weitz.

Ethnically cleansing
by Israelis Miska inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Land ownership
before occupation

Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)

Arab 4,924

Jewish 2,976

Public 176

Total 8,076

Land usage in 1945

Land Usage Type Arab (Dunum) Jewish (Dunum)

Area planted w/ citrus 1,115 1,196

Irrigated & Plantation 304 83

Planted W/ Cereal 3,245 1,683

Built up 88 14

Cultivable 4,664 2,962

Non-Cultivable 348 0

Population
before occupation

Year Population

19th century 300

1922 443

1931 635

1945 1,060 (180 Jewish)

1948 1,021

Est. Refugees 1998 6,269

Number of houses

Year Number of houses

1931 123

1948 197

Town's name through history Miska was founded by descendants of the Arabian tribe of Miskain in the early days of the Islamic conquest in the 7th century.

Schools Miska had an elementary school for boys which is still standing.

Religious institutions One mosque which remain standing.

Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands 'En ha-Choresh, Giv'at Chayyirn, and Achituv.

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Town Today

The site is covered with citrus groves; cactuses grow along the perimeter of these groves. The two-room school still stands and is used as housing for the watchmen who guard the orchards. The mosque serves as a storehouse for bales of hay and agricultural tools. The large cement fragments of a demolished enclosure built around the village well are visible. Most of the surrounding land has been planted by Israelis with citrus trees.

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Videos

Tracing All That Remains of Miska Since Nakba Duration: 9 min 47 sec

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Stories and Memories

Pictures

Miska's school and what remains of it #1, March 2002

Miska's school and what remains of it #2, March 2002

Miska's school and what remains of it #3, March 2002

بعدما قام اهل القرية بترميم المدرسة تم تسيج المدرسة كما ترى قبل هدمها لمنعنا من دخواها.

Here used to be the school. Israel Land Administration razed it.

Miska's village structures, to the right in the Orange Grove the village's Mosque #1, March 2002

طابو > كوشان < فلسطيني صادر عن حكومة فلسطين

Al-Bana's well, on the Kfar Saba-Tira road

The deep well at Abu Ibrahim's.

Here used to be the motor at the well at Abu Ibrahim's.

The house of Abu Othman.

The centre of the village is camouflaged by this eucalyptus grove.

24/04/07 - the mosque of Miska was fenced by the Israel Land Admin.The sign forbids entry. The yellow sign posted by Zochrot.

A well on Miska's lands, not far from the entry to Kibbutz Ramat HaKovesh

Official Israeli copy of a land deed of Husein Hasan Ismail Jabr (Shbeta). Given by Adv. Wiam Shbeta

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Display Name	Clan/Hamolah	Country of Residence
ابو يوسف	جبر	صلالة, عمان
Eng.Hisham Tahir Hussien Hassan Mohammad Al Faqeeh Al Zuhd	Al Zuhd	AMMAN, JORDAN
عمر	-	-
زكريا	ابوطاحون	-
Osama Alzuhd	Alzuhd	-
Eyad Yousef	اليوسف	KSA, KSA
Mohammed Alsaleh	الصالح	JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA
Khader Alkhattari	Alkhattari	TEXAS, U.S.A
Wael tahoun	Abu tahoun	WEST BANK, PALESTINE
Mazen_ballas	Meskh	RIYADH, RIYADH
Amjad Shbita	-	-
ابوسعد	Harb	-
Tayeb Alzuhd	Alzuhd	MICHIGAN, USA
Wafi Shbeita	-	TIRA
Mohammad nadim mohammad mustfa shbeita	Shbieta	TIRA, ISTRAEL
Haytham hamad	Hamad	PALESTINE , PALESTINE
Serhan Shbieta	-	-
Meskawi	Hamad	NABLUS / BALATA CAMP, PALESTIAN
Nasser Hamad	Hamad	JAPAN
Shbetak	Shbeta	POLAND, POLAND
Abu jamil	Shbeta	GERMANY, GERMANY
Shbeta-akfa	حموله شبيطه	AUSTRIA, AUSTRIA

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