Al-Buwayra, Khirbat

Al-Buwayra, Khirbat
Al-Buwayra, Khirbat
Arabic
District	Ramla
Coordinates	31°52′26.45″N 35°00′51.80″E / 31.8740139°N 35.014389°E / 31.8740139; 35.014389Coordinates: 31°52′26.45″N 35°00′51.80″E / 31.8740139°N 35.014389°E / 31.8740139; 35.014389
Population	190 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	July 15, 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation

Al-Buwayra, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 15, 1948 under the second phase of Operation Dani. It was located 15 km southeast of Ramla.

In 1945 it had a population of 190.

The center of the village contained many wells and the village has a khirba which contains the foundations of a rectangular building with cisterns. Today the village area is used as a military training ground by the Israeli Army.

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 

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