Khirbat Al-Dumun
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Al-Dumun | |
Arabic | |
Also Spelled | Khirbet al Damun[1] |
Subdistrict | Haifa |
Population | 340 (1945) |
Area | |
Date of depopulation | April 30, 1948[1] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
Secondary cause | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Al-Dumun was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948. It was located 10.5 km southeast of Haifa.
In 1945 the village had a population of 340. A known cave is located in the area that was used as a sheep fold.
References
Bibliography
- 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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