Al-Tina
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| Al-Tina | |
 Al-Tina
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| Arabic | |
| Sub-district | Ramla |
| Coordinates | 31°44′47.70″N 34°49′11″E / 31.746583°N 34.81972°ECoordinates: 31°44′47.70″N 34°49′11″E / 31.746583°N 34.81972°E |
| Population | 750 (1945) |
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| Date of depopulation | July 8-9, 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Al-Tina was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 8, 1948 by the Givati Brigade under Operation An-Far. It was located 20.5 km south of Ramla.
In 1945 the village had a population of 750. An elementary school for boys was founded in 1946, and it had an initial enrollment of 65 students.
al-Tina was also the birthplace of 'Abd al-Fattah Humud (1933-68), a petroleum engineer, and one of the founding members of al-Fatah, the largest PLO faction.
[edit] References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p.xix, village #269. Also gives cause of depopulation.
[edit] Bibliography
- Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html
- 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. http://books.google.com/?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=benny+morris&q.
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