Al-Ashrafiyya
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| Arabic | الأشرفية |
| Also spelled | Ashrafiya |
| Subdistrict | Baysan |
| Coordinates | 32°28′12″N 35°28′17″E / 32.47000°N 35.47139°ECoordinates: 32°28′12″N 35°28′17″E / 32.47000°N 35.47139°E |
| Palestine grid | 194/208 |
| Population | 230 (1945) |
| Area | 6711 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | May 12, 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
| Current localities | Sheluhot,Reshafim |
Al-Ashrafiyya (Arabic: الأشرفية), was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. It was located 4.5 km southwest of Baysan.
The village was depopulated on May 12, 1948 during Operation Gideon. The village was completely destroyed and the inhabitants fled to Jordan.
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the Mandatory Palestine authorities, Ashrafiyet Kuzma had 29 inhabitant; 27 Muslims and 2 Christians, while Ashrafiyet Rushdi had 7 Muslims; a total of 36 inhabitants. The 2 Christians were Roman Catholics.
In the 1931 census there were 4 villages named Ashrafiyat, where Ashrafiyat Kazma had 123 Muslims and 2 Christians in a total of 34 houses, while the three others were all Muslims; 48 in 11 houses in Ashrafiyat Abd el Hadi, 10 in 3 houses in Ashrafiyat Haddad, and 36 in 10 houses in Ashrafiyat Zamriq. In total there were 219 inhabitants in a total of 58 houses.
In 1945, the population consisted of 230 Muslims, and the land area was 6711 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, the land ownership census the Land Ownership (Dunums) was as follows:
The use of village land in 1945:
The population rose to 267 in 1948 with 61 houses. The Wadi al-Maddu' runs near where the village was located.
In March, 1948, Yosef Weitz had started pressing the Haganah to expel Arab tenant farmers, and kibbutz leaders in the Baysan valley had demanded new settlements in their area, as "a means of freeing our land [from Arabs] and preventing the return of the beduins who had fled to Transjordan". On 22 April, 1948, Haganah agreed to set up five new settlements on non-Arab land, including land in Al-Ashrafiyya.
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