Zakariyya, Khirbat

Zakariyya, Khirbat
Zakariyya, Khirbat
Arabic	خربة زكريا
Name Meaning	Zechariah
Sub-district	Ramla
Coordinates	31°56′15.95″N 34°58′12.15″E
Population
Area
Date of depopulation	July 12-13, 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary cause	Influence of nearby town's fall

Zakariyya, Khirbat (Arabic: خربة زكريا‎) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 12, 1948 under the second stage of Operation Dani. It was located 9 km east of Ramla. Khirbat Zakariyya was completely destroyed with the exception of its well. A shrine was also located to the south of the village center.

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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.