Al-Khayma
| Al-Khayma | |
|---|---|
  Al-Khayma | |
| Arabic | الخيمة |
| Name meaning | The Tent[1] |
| Subdistrict | Ramle |
| Coordinates | 31°45′41″N 34°49′39″E / 31.76139°N 34.82750°ECoordinates: 31°45′41″N 34°49′39″E / 31.76139°N 34.82750°E |
| Palestine grid | 133/130 |
| Population | 190[2][3] (1945) |
| Area | 5,150[3] dunams |
| Date of depopulation | Not known[4] |
Al-Khayma (Arabic: الخيمة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 9, 1948 by the Givati Brigade of Operation An-Far. It was located 18.5 km south of Ramla.
History
In 1863, Victor Guérin found that it had two hundred and fifty inhabitants.[5]
In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine noted it as principally an adobe village of "on low ground", and with a well to the east.[6]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Khaimeh had a population of 132 Muslims,[7] increasing in the 1931 census to 141 Muslims, in 30 houses.[8]
In 1945, the village had a population of 190, all Muslim,[2] and the total land area was 5,150 dunums.[3] Of this, 4 dunams were irrigated or used for plantations, 5,007 were used for cereals,[9] while 9 dunams were classified as built-up urban areas.[10]
1948 and aftermath
Morris list both date and reason for depopulation as "not known".[4] However, he also notes it in connection with Operation An-Far, in mid July 1948.[11][12]
Following the 1948 war, the area was incorporated into the State of Israel and in August 1948 al-Khaymas was one of 21 Palestinian villages whose land was proposed for resettlement with an Israeli village named Revadim.[13] In November, 1948, the proposal to establish Revadim on al-Khayma's land was passed.[14]
Revadim was eventually established close to village land, according to Morris,[15] however, according to Khalidi, Revadim is located north of al-Khayma, on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Mukhayzin.[16]
References
- ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 268
- 1 2 Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29
- 1 2 3 Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 67
- 1 2 Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #267. Morris gives both cause and date of depopulation as "Not known".
- ↑ Guérin, 1869, p. 88
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 408, cited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 388
- ↑ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p. 21
- ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 21
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 115
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 165
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. 437
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. 443
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. 376
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. 380
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. xxi, settlement #35
- ↑ Khalidi, 1992, p. 388
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.
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. 1: Judee, pt. 2.
- 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.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). 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.
External links
- Welcome To al-Khayma
- al-Khayma, Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 16: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- al-Khayma, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
