Ism Allah, Khirbat

Ism Allah, Khirbat
Arabic
Sub-district	Jerusalem
Population	20 (1945)
Area	568 dunums
Date of depopulation	July 17, 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation

Ism Allah, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 17, 1948 by the Har'el Brigade of Operation Dani. It was located 26 km west of Jerusalem. Khirbat Ism Allah was mostly destroyed with the exception of several deserted houses.

In 1945 it had a population of 20 people.

References

• 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.