Al-Barriyya
| Al-Barriyya | |
|---|---|
  Al-Barriyya | |
| Subdistrict | Ramle |
| Coordinates | 31°53′13.85″N 34°54′57.60″E / 31.8871806°N 34.9160000°ECoordinates: 31°53′13.85″N 34°54′57.60″E / 31.8871806°N 34.9160000°E |
| Palestine grid | 142/144 |
| Population | 510 (1945) |
| Date of depopulation | July 10–13, 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Azarya.,[2][3] Beyt Chashmonay[3] |
Al-Barriyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 10, 1948 as part of Operation Dani. It was located 5.5 km southeast of Ramla, on the eastern bank of Wadi al-Barriyya.
The village had a population of 510 people in 1945.
References
Bibliography
- Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener (1881): The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology. London:Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 2 p. 408
- 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