Suruh

 ( District Of Acre ) 

Suruh (), was a Palestinians Arabs hamlet, located northeast of Acre. It became depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

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History Suruh contained two khirbats ("sites of ruins") with a variety of ancient artifacts, including , and rock-hewn .Khalidi, 1992, pp. 31-32

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Ottoman era An 1875 visitor, Victor Guérin, describes it as a ruin, which he called Khurbet Seroueh. Guérin noted; "These ruins cover the summit of the hill. At the highest point we observed the remains of a very ancient square tower, measuring fourteen paces on each side, the lower courses consisting of very large blocks, roughly squared and without cement. The interior is full of similar blocks, piled up in confusion, in the midst of which terebinths and pomegranates have taken root. Near this tower a few old houses served as an asylum to four families of Metawileh. On the lintel of the door of one of these houses a square cross inscribed in a circle can still be traced. The terraces of another house are supported in the interior by arched arcades in good cut stone of Roman, or at least Byzantine, date. There are also the remains of numerous houses which have been destroyed, a dozen cisterns cut in the rock, a column lying on the ground, and the fragment of a sarcophagus."Guerin, 1880, pp. 123- 124; as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 192-193

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Suruh as "a small village, containing about ninety Moslems, situated on a ridge, with olives and arable land round; there are three rock-cut .Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 149 The residents lived by agriculture and raising live-stock.

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British Mandate era In the 1945 statistics the population Tarbikha, Al-Nabi Rubin and Suruh together was 1000 Muslims, and they had a total of 18,563 of land. 619 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,204 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 81 while 112 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 131

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1948, and aftermath

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the inhabitants of Suruh, the neighbouring hamlet of Nabi Rubin and the main village of Tarbikha, were given expulsion orders by forces.Morris, 2004, p. 506 A predominantly Sunni Islam hamlet, Suruh and Nabi Rubin were satellite hamlets of Tarbikha, a largely Shi'ite village. Most of Suruh's inhabitants and those the neighbouring localities ended up leaving to Lebanon.

In 1992 the village site was described: "Only rubble, trees, cactuses, shrubs, and weeds are visible. Most of the site is used for grazing."

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See also

• Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel

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Bibliography

• W. Khalidi (1992). 9780887282249, Institute for Palestine Studies. . ISBN 9780887282249
• B. Morris (2025). 9780521009676, Cambridge University Press. . ISBN 9780521009676

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External links

• Welcome To Suruh
• Suruh, Zochrot
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 3: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Suruh, at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center

Categories: District Of Acre, Arab Villages Depopulated During The 1948 Arab–israeli War, 1948 Disestablishments In Israel

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