Bil'in, Gaza
| Bil'in |
| Arabic |
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| District |
Gaza |
| Population |
180 (1945) |
| Area |
|
| Date of depopulation |
Not known[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation |
|
| Current localities |
Qedma |
Bil'in was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 8, 1948 under Operation An-Far. It was located 39 km northeast of Gaza and the village contained two wells which supplied it with drinking water.
The village had a population of 180 in 1945. Bi'lin had an elementary school which was founded in 1937 and a shrine for al-Shaykh Ya'qub.
References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p.xix, village #290. Morris gives both cause and date for depopulation as "Not known"
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 (SWP, 1881, II: p.409. Quoted in Khalidi, p.90)
- 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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