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| Ra'na District of Hebron رعْنة - רענא Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
October 22, 1948
Distance from district center
26 (km) Northwest of Hebron
Elevation from the sea
200 (meters)
Map location
See location number #8 on the map
Israeli military operation
Operation Yo'av (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)
Israeli attacking brigade
Giv'ati Brigade
Village defenders
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhoods, local Palestinian militias and some Arab Liberation Army volunteers.
Refugees' migration route
Many of the refugees headed for the Hebron hills.
Exodus Cause
Military assault by Jewish troops
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisRa'na was completely obliterated and defaced.
Ethnically cleansing
by IsraelisRa'na inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
6,923
Jewish
0
Public
2
Total
6,925
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Irrigated & Plantation
112
Area planted w/ olives
146
Planted W/ Cereal
5,882
Built up
14
Cultivable
5,994
Non-Cultivable
917
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1922
126
1931
150
1945
190
1948
220
Est. Refugees 1998
1,354
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
36
1948
52
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Gal-On
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"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."
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