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| Umm Burj, Khirbat District of Hebron خربة أمْ برج - ח'ירבת אום בורג' Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
October 28, 1948
Distance from district center
31 (km) Northwest of Hebron
Elevation from the sea
425 (meters)
Map location
See location number #12 on the map
Israeli military operation
Third stage of Operation Yo'av (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)
Israeli attacking brigade
Har'el Brigade
Defenders
Egyptian Army
Exodus Cause
Expulsion by Jewish troops
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisUmm al-Burg was completely destroyed, and only house walls and rubble left behind.
Ethnically cleansing
by IsraelisUmm al-Burg was completely ethnically cleansed between November and April, 1949 (see Zakariyya for more details).
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
13,079
Jewish
0
Public
4
Total
13,083
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Irrigated & Plantation
28
Area planted w/ olives
33
Planted W/ Cereal
3,546
Built up
15
Cultivable
3,574
Non-Cultivable
9,494
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1945
140
1948
162
Est. Refugees 1998
997
Number of houses
In (1931): 26
Town's name through history
Umm al-Burg may have been named after the tower which was built in its center during the Roman period.
Water supplies
The villagers used to obtain drinking water from three wells on the northern parts of the village.
Archeological sites
Umm al-Burg contains at least twenty khirbas in its lands, many of which dates to the Romans period.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Nechusha
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"The crumbled houses that remain are attached to each other. Their windows and Goors are clearly visible, although the roofs and sections of the walls are gone. A large arch stands amidst these remnants of houses. A large deserted structure (which formerly housed an irrigation pump) stands at the foot of the hill, on the western side of the village. It has an entrance on its eastern side."
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