Al-'Umur, Khirbat
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Al-'Umur, Khirbat
| Al-'Umur, Khirbat | |
| Arabic | |
| District | Jerusalem |
| Population | 270 (1945) |
| Area | 4,163 dunums |
| Date of depopulation | October 21, 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Giv'at Ye'arim |
Al-'Umur, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War by the Har'el Brigade of Operation ha-Har. It was located 12 km west of Jerusalem on the Wadi al-Ghadir.
In 1945, the village had a population of 270.
References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p.xx, village #350. Also gives cause of depopulation, with a "(?)"
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
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Coordinates: 31°47′37″N 35°05′56″E / 31.79361°N 35.09889°E
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