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Welcome To Rantiya - رنتية (רנתיה)

District of Jaffa
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Occupation Date July 10, 1948
Distance From District 16 (km) East of Jaffa
Elevation 50 (meters)
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Map Location See location #16 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Dani
Attacking Units The Palmach's Eighth Armored Brigade and the Third Infantry Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade.
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains Rantiya was mostly destroyed with the exception of three deserted houses.
Ethnically Cleansing Rantiya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 4,155
Jewish 142
Public 92
**Total 4,389
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 505 0
Irrigated & Plantation 99 120
Olive Groves 20 0
Planted W/ Cereal 3,518 22
Built up 13 0
Arable 4,122 142
Non-Arable 112 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 132
1931 411
1945 590
1948 684
Est. Refugees 1998 4,203
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 105
1948 174
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Zionist Colonies
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Fajja
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Majdal Yaba
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al-'Abbasiyya
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Wilhelma
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Qula
Town's Name Through History During the Roman period the village was known by Rantia, and the Crusaders referred to it by Rentie.
Schools Rantiya had an elementary school for boys founded in 1947, which had an initial enrollment of 45 students.
Places of Warship One mosque
Water Supply Rantiya contained dozens of artesian wells which had been dug to the east and south of the village.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Mazor, Nofekh, and Rinnatya.
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on a level portion of the central coastal plain, linked by a secondary road to a nearby highway that led to Jaffa and Lydda. The Lydda–Haifa railway line ran 1.5 km east of it. During the Roman period it was known as Rantia; later, the Crusaders called it Rentie. In 1596, Rantiya was a village in the nahiya of Ramla (liwa' of Gaza) with a population of 132. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, fruit, and sesame, as well as on other types of property, such as goats and beehives. In the late nineteenth century, Rantiya was a small village built of adobe brick. At that time, a main road passed right next to it. Its population was predominantly Muslim.

During the Mandate period, Rantiya was laid out in a rectangular plan along a north-south axis; its houses were built of stone and adobe. It had an elementary school that was started by a teacher in 1931 as a private institution; in 1947, it became a public school, and had forty-five students. Education was financed by the villagers themselves. The village also had a mosque and a handful of shops. The residents relied mainly on the neighboring villages of al-'Abbasiyya (Jaffa sub-district) and al-Muzayri'a (Ramla sub-district) for services and for marketing their agricultural produce, including grain, vegetables, and fruit. In 1944/45 a total of 505 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas, and 3,518 dunums were allotted to cereals; 99 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. The people of Rantiya irrigated their crops with water from the dozens of artesian wells that they had dug to the east and south.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Israeli sources report two attacks on this village. The first occurred on 28 April 1948, in the wake of the Irgun attacks on Jaffa and the 'clearing' of the area around the city (see Bayt Dajan, Jaffa sub-disctrict), according to Israeli historian Benny Morris. He implies that Zionist forces did not maintain a foothold in the village, since a second assault was made during Operation Dani (see Abu al-Fadl, Ramla sub-district) in early July. Striking at Rantiya before dawn on 10 July, Israeli forces "cut deeply into Arab territory" on the central front in an effort to envelop Ramla and Lydda, according to the New York Times. In the first stages of that operation, described in the History of the War of Independence, Rantiya was overrun by a composite force consisting of jeeps and armored vehicles of the Palmach's Eighth Armored Brigade and the Third infantry Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade. These two forces occupied Rantiya, along with a string of other villages in the northern approaches to Lydda and Ramla, while another Israeli force advanced along a southern axis.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Three settlements were established in 1949 on village lands: Mazor (143161), Nofekh (142161), and Rinnatya (143161). The settlement of Be'erot Yitzchaq (141160), built in 1948 southwest of the site, is not on village lands.

Village Today

Three deserted houses, standing amid weeds, tall wild grasses, and the debris of several other houses, are all that remains of the village. Two of the deserted houses are made of stone, the third of concrete. All have rectangular doors and windows. Two of them have flat roofs; the third may have had a gabled roof. Cactuses, castor-oil (ricinus) plants, and eucalyptus, cypress, and fig trees further mark the site. Some of the surrounding land is covered by the buildings of the Israeli settlements, but other parts are cultivated.

Source

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