Al-Rihaniyya

This article is about the Palestinian village depopulated in 1948. For the Circassian village in modern day Israel, see Rehaniya.

Al-Rihaniyya
Al-Rihaniyya
Arabic
Also Spelled	Rihaniya, -al
Sub-district	Haifa
Coordinates	32°37′11.7″N 35°05′12.65″E
Population	240 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	Not known
Cause(s) of depopulation

Al-Rihaniyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948 as part of the Battle for Mishmar ha-'Emeq. It was located 25 km southeast of Haifa and 3 km northwest of Wadi al-Mileh.

In 1945 the village had a population of 240. al-Rihaniyya had an elementary school for boys founded in 1888, but it was closed during the British Mandate period.

References

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.