Bil'in, Gaza
This article is about the Palestinian village depopulated during the 1948 war. For the Palestinian village in the West Bank, see Bil'in.
Bil'in | |
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Subdistrict | Gaza |
Palestine grid | 132/121 |
Population | 180 (1945) |
Date of depopulation | Not known[1] |
Current localities | Qedma |
Bil'in was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 8, 1948 under Operation An-Far. It was located 39 km northeast of Gaza and the village contained two wells which supplied it with drinking water.
The village had a population of 180 in 1945. Bi'lin had an elementary school which was founded in 1937 and a shrine for al-Shaykh Ya'qub.
References
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 (PDF). Government of Palestine.
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. ( p. 409, ciited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 90)
- Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. Vol 1; Judee, pt. 2. (p. 121 )
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-00967-7.
- Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. p. 265.
External links
- Welcome To Bi'lin
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 16: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Bi'lin, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
Coordinates: 31°41′20″N 34°49′11″E / 31.68889°N 34.81972°E
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