Bayt Far, Khirbat

Bayt Far, Khirbat
Bayt Far, Khirbat
Arabic
Sub-district	Ramla
Coordinates	31°48′02.65″N 34°54′56.65″E
Population	300 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	April 7, 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation

Bayt Far, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 7, 1948. It was located 14 km south of Ramla.

In 1945 it had a population of 300.

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