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| Sarafand al-Kharab District of al-Ramla صرفند الخراب - צרפנד אל-ח'ראב Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
April 20, 1948
Distance from district center
7 (km) West of al-Ramla
Elevation from the sea
50 (meters)
Map location
See location number #12 on the map
Israeli military operation
Operation Nachshon
Israeli attacking brigade
Giv'ati Brigade
Exodus Cause
Feer of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisSarafand al-Kharab was mostly destroyed with the exception of few houses remain standing and one of its schools.
Ethnically cleansing
by IsraelisSarafand al-Kharab inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
3,545
Jewish
1,611
Public
347
Total
5,503
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Jewish (Dunum)
Area planted w/ citrus
3,148
1,087
Irrigated & Plantation
49
15
Planted W/ Cereal
310
189
Built up
33
0
Cultivable
3,507
1,291
Non-Cultivable
352
320
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1922
862
1931
974
1945
1,040
1948
1,206
Est. Refugees 1998
7,409
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
206
1948
255
Schools
An elementary school for boys which was founded in 1920, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of 258 boys. This school was also shared with Wadi Hunayn, Bir Sa1im, and al-Nabi Rubin villages. A girls' school was also established in 1945, and when it opened its doors it had an enrollment of 46 girls (one of the schools remains standing to this date).
Water supplies
The villagers irrigated their crops from the many artesian wells they had drilled.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Nes Tziyyona, Yad Eli'ezer, and Beyt Chanan.
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi the remaining structures on the village land are:
"A major part of the village has been destroyed. Many houses, however, remain; no more than six of them, including the house of Muhammad Darwish, are occupied by Israeli families. Most of them have gable roofs and rectangular doors and windows. One house is comprised of two stories and has a slanted roof. The school is used by Israeli students. A pond and a pump house in the orchard of Mahmud Yusuf Darwish are still undamaged".
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