Al-Batani al-Gharbi
| Al-Batani al-Gharbi |
| Arabic |
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| District |
Gaza |
| Population |
980 (1945) |
| Area |
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| Date of depopulation |
May 13, 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation |
Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Al-Batani al-Gharbi was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 13, 1948 by the Giv'ati Brigade under Operation Barak. It was located 36 km northeast of Gaza.
The population in 1945 was 980. al-Batani al-Gharbi had an elementary school for boys founded in 1947, and it had an initial enrollment of 119 students. The village had one mosque.
References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p.xix, village #279, Also gives cause of depopulation, with "?"
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 (SWP (1881) II: p.409. Quoted in Khalidi, p. 84)
- 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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