Khirbat Bayt Lid
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 Khirbat Bayt Lid
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| Arabic | خربة بيت لد |
| Also Spelled | Khirbet Beit Lid[1] |
| Sub-district | Tulkarm |
| Coordinates | 32°19′03.9″N 34°53′32.7″E / 32.31775°N 34.892417°ECoordinates: 32°19′03.9″N 34°53′32.7″E / 32.31775°N 34.892417°E |
| Population | |
| Area | 5,336 [2,969 Arab, 2,220 Jewish] dunums |
| Date of depopulation | 5 April 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
| Current localities | Nordia[2][3] |
Khirbat Bayt Lid (Arabic: خربة بيت لد) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tulkarm. It was depopulated by its Arab inhabitants during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
In 1945 the lands of Khirbat Bayt Lid totaled 5,336 Dunums, of which 2,969 were owned by Arabs and 2,220 Dunums were owned by Jews.
The kibbutz Nordia was established on village land in August 1948.[2][3]
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- 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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