Al-Batani al-Gharbi
| Al-Batani al-Gharbi | |
|---|---|
| Subdistrict | Gaza |
| Palestine grid | 121/129 |
| Population | 980 (1945) |
| 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 Gaza Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 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
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (SWP (1881) II: p.409. Quoted in Khalidi, p. 84)
- Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. 1: Judee, pt. 2. (p. 80 -81)
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Karmon, Y. (1960). "An Analysis of Jacotin's Map of Palestine". Israel Exploration Journal 10 (3,4): 155–173; 244–253. (p. 171)
- 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.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
- Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. ( p. 267)
External links
- Welcome To al-Batani al-Gharbi
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 16: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- al-Batani al-Gharbi, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
