Zarnuqa

Zarnuqa
Zarnuqa
Arabic	زرنوقة
Sub-district	Ramla
Coordinates	31°52′49.05″N 34°47′23.04″E
Population	2620 (1945)
Area	7,545 dunums
Date of depopulation	May 27–28, 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Expulsion by Yishuv forces
Current localities	Rehovot, Kvutzat Shiller, Gibton and Givat Brenner

Zarnuqa (Arabic language: زرنوقة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla.

In 1924, the land was sold by Shukri brothers, and Abd al-Rahman al-Taji al-Farouqi.^{[citation needed]}

It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 27, 1948 by the Givati Brigade of Operation Barak. It was located 10 km southwest of Ramla. Zarnuqa was mostly destroyed with the exception of a few houses.^{[citation needed]}

In 1945 the village had a population of 2,620. However, 240 inhabitants were Jewish. The village had two elementary schools: an elementary school for boys which was founded in 1924, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of 252 boys; and one for girls which was founded in 1943, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of 45 girls.^{[citation needed]}

Notable people

• Shikaki brothers: Fathi (Islamic Jihad founder) and Khalil (political scientist).^{[citation needed]}

References

Bibliography

• Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener (1881): The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology. London:Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 2 (p.414 )
• Cohen, Hillel (2008), "Army+of+Shadows" Army of Shadows, Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-25221-9, http://books.google.com/?id=9-NKm7nTm_IC&dq="Army+of+Shadows"
• Guérin, M. V. (1869): Description géographique, historique et archéologique de la Palestine. Judee (p.52 )
• 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.
• 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. ( p.277 )
• Petersen, Andrew (2002), A Gazetteer of Buildings in Muslim Palestine: Volume I (British Academy Monographs in Archaeology), Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-727011-0, http://www.amazon.com/dp/0197270115 p. 320-321

External links

• Welcome To Zarnuqa
• Zarnuqa from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center