Bir Salim
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Arabic | بئر سالم | |
Subdistrict | Ramle | |
Coordinates | 31°55′32.40″N 34°49′41.15″E / 31.9256667°N 34.8280972°ECoordinates: 31°55′32.40″N 34°49′41.15″E / 31.9256667°N 34.8280972°E | |
Population | 410 (1945) | |
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Date of depopulation | May 9, 1948[1] | |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces | |
Current localities | Netzer Sereni[2][3] | |
Bir Salim (Arabic: بئر سالم) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 9, 1948 by the Givati Brigade. It was located 4 km west of Ramla.
The population in 1945 was 410.
References
Bibliography
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- Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center
- 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
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