Bayt Shanna
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| Bayt Shanna | |
 Bayt Shanna
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| Arabic | |
| Sub-district | Ramla |
| Coordinates | 31°52′38.95″N 34°59′12.75″E / 31.8774861°N 34.986875°ECoordinates: 31°52′38.95″N 34°59′12.75″E / 31.8774861°N 34.986875°E |
| Population | 210 (1945) |
| Area | |
| Date of depopulation | July 15-16, 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Bayt Shanna was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 15, 1948, during the second stage of Operation Dani. It was located 11.5 km southeast of Ramla.
In 1945 it had a population of 210.
Two khirbats located to west and northeast of the village center contains the foundations of a church and buildings and cisterns.
[edit] References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p xix village #238. Also gives cause of depopulation, with a "?".
[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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