Al-'Umur, Khirbat
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 0887282245
- Morris, Benny (2004), The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521009676, http://books.google.com/?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=benny+morris&q
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