Al-Imara
| al-Imara | |
| Arabic | العمارة |
| Name Meaning | "the Building" |
| Sub-district | Beersheba |
| Population | |
| Area | |
| Date of depopulation | October 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Urim, Ofakim |
al-Imara (Arabic: العمارة) was a Palestinian village, located in the northern Naqab Desert 27 kilometers (17 mi) northwest of Beersheba.
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[edit] History
In the British mandate period the village was classified as a hamlet by the Palestine Index Gazetteer.[1]
[edit] 1948 War and aftermath
During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the village was captured by the Yiftach Brigade in early October, meeting with no resistance. The Ofakim development town[2] and the Jewish kibbutz of Urim are built on the lands of the former village, with the latter being approximately 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) south of the original village site.[3]
The Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, described the village remains in 1992: "The village site has been completely built over by the kibbutz of Urim. Although the kibbutz was established in 1946 near the village of Al-Imara, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, it was moved to the site of the former British police station. About 2 km southeast of the current kibbutz there are remains of several stone structures. These were the houses that belonged to Bedouin families before 1948 and were not considered part of al-Imara.[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Khalidi (1992), p.72
- ^ Davis, Uri (2008), "In Search of the Abu Sitta Sword", p. 12, http://www.leftcurve.org/LC32WebPages/In%20Search%20of%20Abu%20Sitta%20Sward.UriDavis.pdf
- ^ a b Khalidi (1992), p.73
[edit] Bibliography
- 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.
[edit] External links
- Welcome to al-Imara at Palestine Remembered
