Bayt 'Affa
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| Bayt 'Affa | |
| Arabic | |
| Sub-district | Gaza |
| Population | 700 (1945) |
| Area | |
| Date of depopulation | Not known[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | |
| Current localities | Yad Natan |
Bayt 'Affa was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on January 10, 1948 as part of Operation Barak. It was located 29 km northeast of Gaza and Wadi al-Rana ran east of the village.
The village had a census in 1596 which recorded 143 inhabitants in the village. In 1945 there were 700 people.
The village had a khirba which contained the remains of walls made of ancient columns, uncut stones and a well.
[edit] References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p.xix, village #303. Morris gives both cause and date for depopulation as "Not known"
[edit] Bibliography
- Guérin, M. V. (1869): Description géographique, historique et archéologique de la Palestine. Judee Item notes: v. 1, pt. 2 of 3 p.126
- 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 (SWP, 1881, Vol. III, p.259, Also cited in Khalidi, p. 86 )
- 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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Coordinates: 31°39′41″N 34°42′24″E / 31.6614°N 34.7067°E
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