Statistic/Fact	Value
Israeli occupation date	April 15, 1948
Distance from district center	17 (km) West of Jerusalem
Elevation from the sea	400 (meters)
Map location	See location number #1 on the map
Israeli military operation	Second stage of Operation Dani
Village remains after destruction by Israelis	Nitaf was mostly destroyed with the exception of ONE deserted house.
Ethnically cleansing by Israelis	Nitaf inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership before occupation	Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums) Arab 1,401 Jewish 0 Public 0 Total 1,401
Land usage in 1945	Land Usage Type Arab (Dunum) Irrigated & Plantation 166 Area planted w/ olives 77 Planted W/ Cereal 158 Cultivable 324 Non-Cultivable 1,077
Population before occupation	Year Population 1922 16 1945 40 1948 46 Est. Refugees 1998 285
Shrines/maqams	Nitaf had a maqam for local sage known as al-Shaykh Mas'ud.
Water supplies	The villagers used to obtained their domestic water from a spring to the west and depended on rain for watering their crops.
Archeological sites	Nitaf was built on an archaeological site and was surrounded by a number of khirbas.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands	The Israeli settlement of "Nataf" is not far from village lands.
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Town Today

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
There is a large, deserted stone house on the site surrounded by old terraces. It is a one-storey house with an arched door and arched windows. Northwest of this house, at the bottom of a slope, stands another deserted house. Most of the village lands fell within the Demilitarized Zone that was delineated by the armistice agreement of 1949 between Israel and Jordan