Welcome To Ra'na - رعنة (רענא)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

October 22, 1948

Distance From District

26 (km) Northwest of Hebron

Elevation

200 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Pre-Nakba Aerial View

Map Location

See location #8 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Operation Yo'av (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)

Attacking Units

Giv'ati Brigade

Defenders

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhoods, local Palestinian militias and some Arab Liberation Army volunteers.

Refugees' Migration Routes

Many of the refugees headed for the Hebron hills.

Exodus Cause

Military assault by Zionist troops

Village Temains

Ra'na was completely obliterated and defaced.

Ethnically Cleansing

Ra'na inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	6,923
Jewish	0
Public	2
**Total	6,925

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	112
Olive Groves	146
Planted W/ Cereal	5,882
Built up	14
Arable	5,994
Non-Arable	917

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1922	126
1931	150
1945	190
1948	220
Est. Refugees 1998	1,354

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	36
1948	52

Near By Towns

Tall al-Safi ↖	Mughallis ↑ (N)	'Ajjur ↗
Thikrin ←	Ra'na	→ Dayr al-Dubban
↙ Zayta	↓ Bayt Jibrin	↘ Kudna

Town Lands' Demarcation Maps

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
That Usurped Village Lands

Gal-On

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on the eastern slopes of the western foothills of the Hebron Mountains. A secondary road passed through the village, linking it to Kudna and Bayt Jibrin to the south. To the northwest this road led to the villages of Dayr al-Dubban and 'Ajjur, ultimately connecting with the Jerusalem-Jaffa highway. Edward Robinson, an American biblical scholar who passed by in 1838, mentioned that the fields of Ra'na were planted in tobacco and cotton. In the late nineteenth century, the village of Ra'na was built of stone and mud, and had a pool and gardens. The population was Muslim; their houses were made of stone and roofed with wood and mud. Ra'na was classified as a hamlet by the Palestine Index Gazetteer. Grain was the predominant crop but the villagers also cultivated grapes, carob, and olives in the final years of the Mandate. In 1944/45 a total of 5,882 dunums was planted in cereals; 112 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The Israeli army's Giv'ati Brigade stormed a number of villages in the Hebron sub-district as other forces implemented Operation Yoav further to the south. Ra'na fell into Israeli hands on 22-23 October. Many of its residents, as well as those of other villages in the hills around Hebron, fled before the arrival of Israeli troops; those remaining were expelled towards Hebron.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Gal-On was established in 1946 on what were traditionally village lands.

Village Today

The site is fenced in with barbed wire and is overgrown in part by cactuses, especially where there is limestone soil, and by carob trees. No houses or rubble remains.

Source

Dr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains.

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Pre-Nakba Aerial view of the village / صورة من الجو للقرية اخذت قبل النكبة

Display Name	Clan/Hamolah	Country of Residence
يحيى خاطر	-	الرصيفة
ابو ثائر	خاطر	فست فالين المانيا, المانيا
اشرف ابوحمره	ال خاطر	-
احمد خاطرخاطر	خاطر	الزرقاء, الاردن
هبه خاطر	خاطر	عمان, الاردن
حسام ابوحمرة خاطر	خاطر	الاردن, الاردن
murad alhawi	-	-
nats semreen	-	-

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