Khirbat al-Buwayra
Khirbat al-Buwayra | |
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Khirbat al-Buwayra | |
Subdistrict | Ramle |
Coordinates | 31°52′26.45″N 35°00′51.80″E / 31.8740139°N 35.0143889°ECoordinates: 31°52′26.45″N 35°00′51.80″E / 31.8740139°N 35.0143889°E |
Palestine grid | 151/142 |
Population | 190 (1945) |
Date of depopulation | July 15, 1948 |
Khirbat al-Buwayra was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 15, 1948 under the second phase of Operation Dani. It was located 15 km southeast of Ramla.
In 1945, it had a population of 190.
The center of the village contained many wells and the village has a khirba which contains the foundations of a rectangular building with cisterns. Today the village area is used as a military training ground by the Israeli Army.
References
- Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center
- Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
- Morris, Benny (2004), The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6
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