Al-Haditha, Ramle
This article is about the former Palestinian village in Ramle Sub-district. For other uses, see Haditha (disambiguation).
| Al-Haditha | |
|---|---|
  Al-Haditha | |
| Name meaning | "new"[1] |
| Subdistrict | Ramle |
| Coordinates | 31°57′47.95″N 34°57′06.35″E / 31.9633194°N 34.9517639°ECoordinates: 31°57′47.95″N 34°57′06.35″E / 31.9633194°N 34.9517639°E |
| Palestine grid | 145/152 |
| Population | 760[2] (1945) |
| Date of depopulation | July 12, 1948[3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Al-Haditha was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict. It was located 8 km northeast of Ramla, on the bank of Wadi al-Natuf. The site, now known as Tel Hadid, has yielded significant archaeological remains from many periods.
History
It has been suggested that Al-Haditha was the site of the biblical village of Hadid, mentioned in the Book of Ezra (II, 33) and later in the Mishna as a city of Judea fortified by Joshua.[4] Hadid was called 'Adida in the Book of Maccabees, while Eusebius referred to it as Adatha or Aditha.[4]
In 1945, the village had a population of 760.[2] It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 12, 1948 under the first stage of Operation Dani.
References
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. (pp. 297, 322: Guerin)
- Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (pp. 64 -67 )
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. (pp. 115, 165 )
- 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. (p. 381)
- 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 0-521-00967-7.
- Neubauer, Adolf (1868). La géographie du Talmud : mémoire couronné par l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (in French). Paris: Lévy.
- 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.
- Socin, A. (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 2: 135–163. (p. 154 )
External link
- Welcome To al-Haditha
- SWP map XIV, IAA
- SWP map 14, Wikimedia commons
