'Ayn Fit

Depopulated Syrian village in the Golan Heights yes May 2026 'Ayn Fit عين فيت ar Village Ein-Fit-05.JPG Ruins at 'Ayn Fit Syria Golan 'Ayn Fit in Syria Country Governorate Quneitra District Quneitra Region Golan Heights Founded 17th century Destroyed 1967 1960s 1,500 33 13 26 N 35 42 15 E region:SY inline,title Palestine grid 216/292 'Ayn Fit (ar عين فيت), was a Syrian Alawite village situated in the northwestern Golan Heights.Abu Fakhr Sakr 2000 Voices from the Golan https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/40836 Journal of Palestine Studies 29 4 5–36 10.2307/2676559 2676559 29 January 2024 20 May 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20240129071514/https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/40836 live Southern Lebanon Border Area 1986 University of Texas at Austin http://lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/lebanon_southern_border_1986.jpg 20 May 2023 4 March 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112049/http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/lebanon_southern_border_1986.jpg live History 'Ayn Fit was established during the early 17th century.Ashkenazi Eli 10 May 2023 Demonstrators protest IDF's plan to destroy heritage site in Golan Heights https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-743628 20 May 2023 The Jerusalem Post The German explorer Ulrich Jasper Seetzen visited 'Ayn Fit in 1806 during his travels in the region.Winter Stefan https://books.google.com/books?id=r3CYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31 A History of the 'Alawis: From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic Princeton University Press 2016 978-0-691-17389-4 31 14 August 2024 In 1838, Eli Smith noted 'Ayn Fit‘s population as Alawites.Robinson Edward Edward Robinson (scholar) Biblical Researches in Palestine Crocker & Brewster 1841 3 Boston 136 2nd Appendix https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/136/mode/1up Before the Six-Day War in 1967, it was one of three mainly Alawite villages in the Golan Heights, together with Za'ura and Ghajar. The population before the war was around 1500 people. The inhabitants were forcibly expelled during the Six-Day War, when Israel occupied the Golan Heights, and the village was destroyed by Israel.Mason M. https://books.google.com/books?id=UZKEEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA110 The Untold Story of the Golan Heights: Occupation, Colonization and Jawlani Resistance Eldin M.F. Dajani M. Bloomsbury Publishing 2022 978-0-7556-4453-7 110 20 May 2023 See also Syrian towns and villages depopulated in the Arab-Israeli conflict References Category:Alawite communities in Syria Category:Razed cities Category:Former populated places in the Golan Heights Category:Six-Day War Category:17th-century establishments in Ottoman Syria Category:Populated places established in the 17th century Category:1967 disestablishments in Syria Category:Populated places disestablished in 1967