Welcome To al-Buwayra, Khirbat - خربة البويرة (ח'ירבת אל-בוירה)

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Occupation Date

July 15, 1948

Distance From District

15 (km) Southeast of al-Ramla

Elevation

250 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #28 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Second phase of Operation Dani (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)

Exodus Cause

Military assault by Zionist troops

Village Temains

Khirbat al-Buwayra was completely obliterated, and only house rubble left behind.

Ethnically Cleansing

al-Buwayra, Khirbat inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	1,150
Jewish	0
Public	0
**Total	1,150

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	31
Olive Groves	25
Planted W/ Cereal	316
Arable	347
Non-Arable	803

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1931	101
1945	190
1948	220
Est. Refugees 1998	1,354

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	17
1948	37

Near By Towns

Barfiliya ↖	Bir Ma'in ↑ (N)	Bayt Sira ↗
Bayt Shanna ←	al-Buwayra, Khirbat	→ Ajanjul
↙ 'Imwas	↓ Yalu	↘ Bayt Nuba

Water Supply

The center of the village contained many wells (many of these wells are still in use by Israeli Jewish settlers).

Archeological Sites

The village has a khirba which contains the foundations of a rectangular building that was equipped with cisterns.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
That Usurped Village Lands

Buwayra's lands are used as a military training ground by the Israeli Army.

Village Before Nakba

The village was located on a hilltop, spread along both banks of a wadi and surrounded by low-lying wadis and hills. A dirt path linked the village to the Ramla-Ramallah highway, less than 2 km to the east, and other, dirt paths connected it to adjacent villages. The village was founded by families from the area who first established farms on the land and then gradually built houses there. Their houses were made of masonry and mud, clustered together and separated by narrow alleys. The entire population was Muslim. A well on the site supplied Khirbat al-Buwayra with water for domestic use. The inhabitants grew grain, vegetables, and fruits; these crops were either rainfed or irrigated with water from several wells scattered around the site. In 1944/45 a total of 316 dunums was allocated to cereals. Thirty-one dunums were irrigated or used for orchards; olives were grown on 25 dunums, and some of the land area served as pasture. A khirba that bore the village's name was located on the outskirts; it contained the foundations of a rectangular building that was equipped with cisterns.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

During the second phase of Operation Dani (see Abu al-Fadl, Ramla sub-disctrict), after Israeli units had conquered and depopulated Ramla and Lydda, some units advanced eastwards in the direction of al-Latrun. Khirbat al-Buwayra was probably seized during that push, in mid-July 1948. The sub-operation failed to capture al-Latrun but brought a substantial number of Palestinian villages under Israeli occupation. There is no account of the occupation of this village, but General Yigal Allon, who commanded Operation Dani, was notorious for deporting large numbers of people from areas falling under his control. When the armistice lines between Israel and Jordan were drawn they fell in close proximity to the village.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land.

Village Today

The village has been reduced to rubble, which is scattered over a wide area; only the walls of one big house, made of relatively large stones still stand. The center of the site contains many wells and private gardens, separated by stone markers that also serve as stairs leading down to the wadi. In 1989, a fire burned the almond, fig, olive, and pine trees that grew at the center of the site. Today the village is a military training area.

Source

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

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