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The District of Ramleh
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Abu al-Fadl
In 1949, Abu al-Fadl was erased from the map with the
establishment of the settlement of Sitriyya. The settlement of Talmey
Menashe is also on village lands. It has been partly absorbed into the
suburbs of the city of Rishon Le-Tziyyon. Of the original village
houses, no more than 5 still stand, deserted and nearly collapsing.
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Abu Shusha
Abu Shusha was first attacked in the early months of
the war in what the Haganah called "the model of a studied retaliatory
operation". According to the account given by the History of the
Haganah, the hit-and-run attack was carried out after a guardsman
from the nearby settlement of Gezer was killed while trespassing on the
fields of Abu Shusha. The Israeli settlement of Ameilim occupies much of
the site.
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Ajanjul
There are no Israeli settlements on village land. The
area is closed and is located along the 1967 border between Jordan and
Israel
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Aqir
Baron Edmond de Rothschild established the settlement
of 'Eqron in 1883, 1 km south of the village site on land purchased by
the settlers; it was later renamed Mazkeret Batya. The settlement of
Qiryat 'Eqron was established in 1948 on village lands; its name was
later changed to Kefar 'Eqron. A number of small houses remain, several
of which are occupied by Jewish families.
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Tal-Barriyya
Currently there are two Israeli settlements on
village lands. The village site is mostly cleared and has been leveled.
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Al-Barriyya
No information available.
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Bashshit
There are seven Israeli settlements on village land.
Three houses and a pool remain. Two of the houses are deserted and an
Israeli family occupies one. Israelis cultivate the surrounding lands.
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Khirbat Bayt Far
The settlement of Beyt Pe'er was founded on village
lands in 1948. Its name was later changed to Tal Shachar. All that is
left of the village are debris and girders heaped together in a small
area.
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Bayt Jiz
Three Israeli settlements are on village land. The
site, overgrown with wild vegetation, is used as a recreation area. The
school is the only remaining landmark and is used as a recreation
facility, although a fire observation tower has been added to it. A
number of houses remain. Some are used for storage, other are deserted.
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Bayt Nabala
The Settlement of Kefar Truman (in honor of American
president Harry Truman), was established in 1949. The site is overgrown
with grass, thorny bushes, and cypress and fig trees. The surrounding
land is cultivated by Israeli settlements.
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Bayt Shanna
Moshav Ta'oz was established on village lands.
Bulldozers have leveled the site. The remains of walls from houses can
be seen on the southern edge.
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Bayt Susin
The military settlement of Makkabim was established
on village lands in 1986. Two deserted building with crumbling walls can
be seen on the site, which is otherwise overgrown with cacti. Part of
the surrounding land is used for target practice and other Israeli
military purposes, and Israeli farmers cultivate part of it.
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Bir Ma'in
In 1949, Abu al-Fadl was erased from themap with the
establishment of the settlement of Sitriyya. The settlementof Talmey
Menashe is also on village lands. It has been partly absorbedinto the
suburbs of the city of Rishon Le-Tziyyon. Of the original villagehouses,
no more than 5 still stand, deserted and nearly collapsing.
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Bir Salim
The site is now occupied by the Israeli settlement of
Netzer Sereni. All of the former houses are gone. The old village water
tank remains.
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Al-Burj
The agricultural settlement of Kefar Rut is on
village lands. Only one crumbled houses remains on the hilltop. The
nearby settlement uses the village land for hothouse agriculture.
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Khirbat Il-Buwayra
There are no Israeli settlements on village land. The
village has been reduced to rubble, which is scattered. Today the
village is a military training area.
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Daniyal
The village took its name from the Hebrew prophet
Daniel, called al-Nabi (the prophet) Daniyal in Arabic. It was not
uncommon for Palestinian Muslims to honor such Old Testament prophets by
building shrines for them. Some of these shrines were built over the
supposed tombs or birthplaces of these prophets, while others simply
commemorated the appearance of a prophet to a local believer. The
settlement of Kfar Daniyyel was established on the village site in 1949.
The shrine of al-Nabi Daniyal, the school, and 7 houses are all that
remain of the village. The shrine, deserted amid weeds and a few trees,
is made of stone, a second storey rising on one side. Residents of Kfar
Daniyyel use the old school.
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Dayr Abu Salama
There are no Israeli settlements on village lands.
The site has been converted into an Israeli picnic area and is
surrounded by stands of pine and cypress trees. Workers for the Jewish
National Fund have used stones retrieved from the destroyed village
houses to construct a watchtower and an amphitheater on the village
site.
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Dayr Ayyub
There are no Israeli settlements on village lands.
The eastern segment of Canada Park lies on the village site. The park,
which was open in 1978 was financed by donations from Canadian Jews, was
established on the ruins of three other villages (Bayt Nuba, 'Imwas, and
Yalu) destroyed by the Israeli army in June 1967. The remains of houses
can be seen on a high hill. The cemetery contains the remains of a
tombstone, and the entire area is fenced in.
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Dayr Muhaysin
The settlement of Beqoa' is on village land. Wild
vegetation spreads across the village site, which has been leveled by
bulldozers.
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Dayr Tarif
Israel established the settlement of Beyt 'Arif on
the ruins of the village in 1949. The site, covered with the debris of
destroyed houses, is overgrown with thorns and other wild plants.
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Khirbat Al-Duhayriyya
There are no Israeli settlements on village lands.
The walls of some ten houses still stand. The site is fenced in and
serves as a pasture for animals.
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Al-Haditha
The settlement of Chadid was established in 1950 on
village lands. The stone and concrete rubble of destroyed houses is
visible on the site. Only one house remains, sealed and deserted.
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Idnibba
There are no Israeli settlements on village lands.
The site and the surrounding lands have been converted into pastures and
woods. Bulldozers have leveled a large area. Demolished walls and the
remnants of stone houses lie at various points on the site.
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Innaba
The settlements of Kefar Shemu'l was established on
village land in 1950. The site, which overlooks the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv
highway a few km from al-Latrun and its abbey, is fenced off and
difficult to enter. The debris from the school and the former local
headquarters of the Arab Palestine Party are visible.
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Jilya
There are no settlements on village lands. The area
is fenced in and inaccessible.
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Jimzu
The settlement of Jimzo was established on village
land in 1950. All that remains of the houses are stones, strewn over the
site, and some crumbled walls.
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Kharruba
There are no settlements on village lands. The site
is covered with the stone rubble of the destroyed houses, overgrown with
vegetation. Many of the plants that grow on the site are ones that
Palestinians traditionally planted near their homes: cacti, castor oil,
cypress, and olive trees. Israelis use the surrounding land as a grazing
ground.
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Al-Khayma
There are no settlements on village land. All that
remains of the village are three mounds to the east, west, and south of
the site that contain the remnants of houses.
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Khulda
Kibbutz Mishmar David was established in 1948 on
village lands. Only two houses are left. Otherwise, the site is covered
with wild vegetation.
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Al-Kunayyisa
There are no Israeli settlements on village lands.
More than thirty partially destroyed buildings, including houses, still
stand. The nearby kibbutz cultivates the lands in the vicinity.
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Al-Latrun
This strategically located hamlet, which controlled
the Jerusalem-Jaffa road, was the scene of a long series of battles in
the course of the war. Six separate Israeli attacks were launched to
capture the al-Latrun salient. The residents of al-Latrun moved to the
neighboring village of 'Imwas destroyed in 1967. Their houses remained
empty until 1967, when the Israeli army captured al-Latrun during the
June War. All the houses have been destroyed. There are also a few
almond and carob trees and cacti on the site. Ironically, using original
village land –leased from the nearby Trappist Latrun monastery- the
Israeli settlement of Newe Shalom was established in 1983: This village
is run and settled by Jewish Israeli and Palestinian Israeli families,
in a unique experiment of peaceful coexistence
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Al-Maghar
The settlement of Beyt El'azari, built in 1948, is on
village land. A number of houses still stand: Jewish families occupy
four of them and the rest are deserted.
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Majdal Yaba
No Informaation available.
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Al-Mansura
There are no Israeli settlements on village land. The
site is planted with sycamore trees and there are also cactuses growing
on it.
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Al-Mukhayzin
The settlements of Chafetz Chayyim, Revadim, Yad
Binyamin, and Beyt Chilqiyya were established on village land. The
village has been completely leveled so that only flat, cultivated fields
can be seen.
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Al-Muzayri'a
The settlement of Nechalim was founded in 1949 on the
northwestern part of the village land. The settlement of Mazor was
established in 1949 on the western side of the village lands. The site
is largely forested. While a few houses remain, most have been reduced
to rubble.
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Al-Na'ani
Zionists established the settlement of Na'an on
village land. Ramot Me'ir was built on village land, west of the village
site, in 1949. The main landmark, the railway station, is now deserted.
The railway line itself is used by Israel and now extends south to
Beersheba. The land around the site is cultivated.
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Al-Nabi Rubin
The village was located 3 km away from the
Mediterranean. For Palestinians al-Nabi Rubin had great significance
because it was the site of a shrine for al-Nabi (The prophet) Rubin, who
was honored with annual mawsim (pilgrimage season), during which
Islamic and popular celebrations were held. The mawsim lasted
from July through September. People flocked to the shrine from Jaffa,
Lydda, al-Ramla, and the region's villages. They sang religious as well
as secular/popular songs; danced the dabka, held dhikr sessions; watched
horse races and magic shows; and listened to preachers or zajjals. The
participants camped in tents and were served refreshments at makeshift
cafés and restaurants. They shopped for wares at booths that
entrepreneurs set up for the occasion. The village land area was
designated as an Islamic waqf (pious endowment). Shops as well as
movie theaters were built in the neighborhood of the shrine.
Zionists established Kibbutz Palmachim, and the
settlement of Gan Soreq on village land. The shrine of al-Nabi Rubin
stands amid shrubs and other wild vegetation
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Qatra
Zionists established the settlement of Gedera in
1884; it is now a town, and many of its buildings are on village land.
Qidron was built on village land in 1949. Only the school and a few
deserted houses remain. Israelis cultivate the surrounding lands.
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Qazaza
The site is within an inaccessible military zone.
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Al-Qubab
The settlement of Gezer was built on what was
traditionally village land in 1945. Zionist immigrants from
Czechoslovakia established the settlement of Mishmar Ayyalon on the
ruins of al-Qubab in 1949. In 1952 Kefar Bin-Nun was added, also on
village land. The only landmark that remains is the school; a number of
stone houses that have rectangular doors and windows still stand, and
some of them are used as Israeli residences.
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Al-Qubayba
Zionists established the settlements of Ge'alya, and
Kefar Gevirol on the site. The walls and rubble of collapsed houses
intermingle with the buildings of the Israeli settlements that have been
established on the site. Some houses remain, another village house is
now used as a restaurant. Part of the school still stands.
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Qula
There are no Israeli settlements on village land. A
forest covers much of the village site. The rubble of crumbled houses
and terraces lies among the trees. The only remaining landmark is the
school.
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Sajad
There are no Israeli settlements on village lands.
The site is an inaccessible military zone.
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Salbit
The kibbutz of Sha’alvim was established in 1951 on
village lands. Nothing remains except some cactus plants and shrubs.
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Sarafand Al-‘Amar
Israel established the settlement of Tzerifin, which
included a military camp, on the ruins of the village in 1949. The
settlement of Nir Tzevi, built in 1954, is also on village land. The
site, which contains what may be the largest Israeli army camp as well
as air base, has been designated a military area. No more than six
houses remain; most of them are deserted, but Israelis occupy one or
two.
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Sarafand El-Kharaba
Yad Eli’ezer established in the early 1950s, is on
village land. It was named after Eliezer Margolin, a commander of the
British army’s Jewish Legion during the World War I who, disobeying
orders, allowed his troops to use British weapons from the military base
in Sarafand al-‘Amar against Palestinian nationalists in 1921. A major
part of the village has been destroyed. Many houses, however, remain;
Israeli families occupy some of them. Israeli students use the school.
The cemetery is overgrown with cactus plants.
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Saydun
There are no Israeli settlements on village lands.
Israelis use the surrounding lands for agriculture.
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Shahma
There are no Israeli settlements on village land. The
site has been incorporated into a fenced-in military airfield.
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Shilta
Israel established the agricultural settlements of
Shilat and Kefar Rut on village lands. The site is overgrown with
mountain flora, several wells are visible
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Al-Tina
There are no Israeli settlements on village lands.
The village has been completely effected. Next to the site is a wide
area, overgrown with bushes and thorns, that is fenced-in.
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Al-Tira
Immigrants from Eastern Europe established the
settlement of Tirat Yehuda in 1949 on village land. The site, situated
next to a paved road, is partly deserted and overgrown with a variety of
trees. A number of stone houses survive, however; some are deserted,
others are occupied by Israelis, and still others are used as stables
for livestock.
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Umm Kalkha
The settlement of Yesodot was built on village land
in 1948.
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Wadi Hunayn
Kefar Aharon, established in 1948 on village lands.
Has been merged with Nes Tziyyona. The mosque has been converted into a
synagogue, Gulat Yisra’el. About ten houses survive, inhabited by Jewish
families, converted into a mental hospital, or utilized for unspecified
purposes by the Israel Defense Force.
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Yibna
9 settlements were built on village lands. A railroad
crosses the village. The dilapidated mosque and minaret, together with a
shrine, still remain.
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Khirbat Zakariyya
There are no Israeli settlements on village land.
From a distance, the village appears as a bare hill overgrown with
thorns and other wild vegetation. The site, which is used as a grazing
area by Israelis, is strewn with stones. It is difficult to distinguish
between the stones that are naturally found in the soil and those that
once were parts of the houses. The remains of village wells and the cut
stones that were used to cover them are visible.
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Zarnuqa
In late 1948 the settlement of Zarnoqa was established on the village
site. It is now a neighborhood on the outskirts of Rehovot. The
settlements of Gan Shelomo, Gibton, and Giv’at Brenner have also spread
onto village lands and are merging with the suburbs of Rehovot. The
houses of the Israeli settlements dominate the site, on which mulberry
trees and cacti grow. The few houses that remain are either occupied by
Jewish inhabitants or fenced in and used for storage.
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