Al-Haditha, Palestine

This article is about the former Palestinian village. For other uses, see Haditha (disambiguation).

Al-Haditha
Al-Haditha
Arabic
Sub-district	Ramla
Coordinates	31°57′47.95″N 34°57′06.35″E
Population	760 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	July 12, 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces

Al-Haditha was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was located 8 km northeast of Ramla, situated on the west bank of Wadi al-Natuf.

In Biblical times, al-Haditha was referred to as "Hadid", and during the Hellenistic era it was known as 'Adida. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 12, 1948 under the first stage of Operation Dani.

In 1945 it had a population of 760.

References

Bibliography

• Guérin, M. V. (1875): Description Géographique, Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. Samarie, 2 pt. ("Seconde partie -Samarie")("Tome II") (p. 64 -67 )
• 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 0-521-00967-7, 9780521009676