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| 'Aqir District of al-Ramla عآقر - עאקר Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
May 6, 1948
Distance from district center
9 (km) Southwest of al-Ramla
Elevation from the sea
50 (meters)
Map location
See location number #36 on the map
Israeli attacking brigade
Giv'ati Brigade
Exodus Cause
Military assault by Jewish troops
Village remains
after destruction by Israelis'Aqior was mostly destroyed with the exception of five of its houses.
Ethnically cleansing
by Israelis'Aqir inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
11,322
Jewish
3,222
Public
1,281
Total
15,825
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Jewish (Dunum)
Area planted w/ citrus
1,300
1,395
Irrigated & Plantation
914
36
Planted W/ Cereal
9,739
1,777
Built up
46
0
Cultivable
11,953
3,208
Non-Cultivable
604
14
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1931
1,691
1945
2,480
1948
2,877
Est. Refugees 1998
17,667
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
401
1948
682
Town's name through history
The Romans referred to the village by Accaron.
Schools
Two elementary schools: the 1st was for boys founded in 1921 which had an enrollment of 391 boys in 1945; the 2nd was for girls which had an enrollment of 46 girls in 1945.
Religious institutions
Two mosques
Shrines/maqams
Two shrines for unknown individuals.
Nearby wadies & rivers
The village is situated 1 km north of Wadi al-Nasufiyya.
Water supplies
Ground water was plentiful, and in the 1940s a number of artesian wells were drilled.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Mazkeret Batya, Kefar 'Eqron, and Ganne Yochanan.
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"Of the original village houses, no more than five still stand, deserted and nearly collapsing. One of these houses, located at the edge of a citrus grove, is made of cement blocks, with rectangular doors and windows and a tiled, sloping roof".
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