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| al-Tira District of al-Ramla طيرة دندن - א-טירה Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
July 10, 1948
Distance from district center
12 (km) Northeast of al-Ramla
Elevation from the sea
75 (meters)
Map location
See location number #4 on the map
Israeli military operation
Operation Dani
Israeli attacking brigade
Alexandroni and Armored (Eighth) brigades
Defenders
Local militia & Arab Liberation Army
Exodus Cause
Military assault by Jewish troops
Village remains
after destruction by Israelisal-Tira was mostly destroyed with the exception of few houses survived destruction. Some of those houses are deserted and some are being used by Israeli Jewish settlers.
Ethnically cleansing
by Israelisal-Tira inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
6,706
Jewish
0
Public
50
Total
6,956
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Irrigated & Plantation
78
Planted W/ Cereal
5,551
Built up
45
Cultivable
5,629
Non-Cultivable
1,282
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1596
160
1922
705
1931
892
1945
1,290
1948
1,496
Est. Refugees 1998
9,190
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
225
1948
377
Town's name through history
al-Tira was known to the Crusades by Thaeria.
Schools
An elementary school which was founded in 1922, and in 1947-48 school year it had an enrollment of 110 boys and 22 girls students.
Religious institutions
The village has an old mosque call al-'Umari mosque, and another newer mosque.
Water supplies
Drinking water was provided by a well on the West Side and from smaller private wells. Also water was collected in al-Waq' pool, which was used for irrigation.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Tirat Yehuda, Giv'at Koach, and Bareqet.
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, all that remains of the village:
"A number of stone houses survive, however; some are deserted, others are occupied by Israelis, and still others are used as stables for livestock. A deserted house, fenced in with barbed wire, has high, round-arched windows and a flat roof; the yard is overgrown with untended grass. One of the occupied houses is quite modest. It has a rectangular door and window and a flat roof; date-pabn and other trees grow on two sides. A second, larger, occupied house has two stories and a wide porch, and is also surrounded by trees. A third is also quite large and has two stories; a side stairway leads to a second-floor porch and there is a large, round arched entrance on the first floor. There are some destroyed houses inside the settlement of Bareqet."
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| Khalid Thib | Thib | AMMAN |
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| Waleed Yassin | - | - |
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| Mahmoud Alhawi | الحاوي | الزرقاء, الاردن |
| ابوخضر | عيسى | نابلس, فلسطين |
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| اسماعيل | عبد القادر | عدن, عدن |
| ابو اسماعيل | عبد القادر | اليمن, اليمن |
| ندي عبد القادر | Abd alkader | - |
| Musa'b Muhammed Salameh | Salameh | DUBAI, UAE |
| Abeer Abdel-Qader | Abdel Qader | JORDAN |
| Sa'adat Ghabayen | Ghabayen | DUBAI, UAE |
| Issa Alterawe | - | ABU DHABI, UAE |
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| Alteerawy | - | AMMAN, JORDAN |
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| Reem Essam Abdulqader | Abdulqader | DOHA, QATAR |
| Said Salameh | Salameh | WEST BANK, PALESTINE |
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| Ghada Terawi | - | PALESTINE, PALESTINE |
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