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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

May 16, 1948

Distance From District

7.5 (km) North of Baysan

Elevation

150 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Pre-Nakba Aerial View

Map Location

See location #5 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Operation Gideon

Attacking Units

Most likely by Golani Brigades

Exodus Cause

Influence of fall of, or exoduce from, neighboring town

Village Temains

al-Bira was completely destroyed, and only house walls and rubble left behind.

Ethnically Cleansing

al-Bira inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	4,853
Jewish	0
Public	2,013
**Total	6,866

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	48
Olive Groves	120
Planted W/ Cereal	4,681
Built up	52
Arable	4,729
Non-Arable	2,085

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1596	297
1922	200
1931	220
1945	260
1948	302
Est. Refugees 1998	1,852

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	53
1948	72

Near By Towns

	Sirin ↑ (N)
Danna ←	al-Bira
↙ Kafra		↘ Kawkab al-Hawa

Town's Name Through History

al-Bira was known by Beer in the Old Testament, and the Crusaders referred to it by Loberium.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

No Israeli settlements on village lands.

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on the edge of the high hill of al-Shafa, on the east side of a wadi that ran in a north-south direction until it met Wadi al-Bira, to the north. Secondary roads linked it to several surrounding villages; one of the roads passed through the village of al-Murassas and led south to a highway going to Baysan. The Iraq Petroleum Company pipeline, which carried oil to a refinery in Haifa, passed south of the village.

It has been suggested that al-Bira is the site mentioned in the record of Thutmose III's military campaign in Palestine in 1468 B.C. Some biblical scholars have identified the site with a place named Beer in the Old Testament (Judges 9:21). The name suggests that there may once have been a fortress at the site. Little is known about it in the early Islamic period. The Arab geographers Yaqut al-Hamawi (d. 1228) and Abu al-Fida' (d. 1321) mentioned aI-Bira's strong fortress and vast lands. The Crusaders referred to it as Loberium. In 1596, al-Bira was a village in the nahiya of Shafa (liwa' of Lajjun), with a population of 297. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and olives, as well as on other types of produce such as goats and beehives.

The village was rectangular in shape and most of its houses were built of stone. The entire population of al-Bira was Muslim. The village had only a few shops, and so the villagers depended on the neighboring town of Baysan, which served as a commercial outlet and administrative center. The village economy was based on agriculture, mainly rainfed grain. In 1944/45 a total of 4,667 dunums was allocated to cereals; 48 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. AI-Bira was also known for the grazing lands in the grassy mountainous areas around the village.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands.

Village Today

The only remains of the village are the walls of houses. The fenced-in site is covered with weeds, cactuses, and thorns. Fig and mulberry trees grow near a spring in the valley at the bottom of the site. The surrounding lands are used for grazing.

Source

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

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malomari	-	jordan, jordan

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