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Welcome To Bayt Tima - بيت طيما (בית טימא)

District of Gaza
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Picture for Bayt Tima Village - Palestine: : جولة بين بيوت القرية المدمرة -- إياد جابر. #4
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date October 18, 1948
Distance From District 21 (km) North East of Gaza
Elevation 75 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Pre-Nakba Aerial Viewwhat's new
Pre-Nakba Aerial View
Map Location See location #31 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Yo'av
Attacking Units Giv'ati Brigade
Defenders Egyptian Army
Acts of Terror Massacre occured by Zionist troops against the town's inhabitants.
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing Bayt Tima inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 10,753
Jewish 0
Public 289
**Total 11,032
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 197
Planted W/ Cereal 10,444
Built up 60
Arable 10,641
Non-Arable 331
Population
Year Population*
1596 693
1922 606
1931 762
1945 1,060
1948 1,230
Est. Refugees 1998 7,551
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 157
1948 253
Near By Townswhat's new
al-Majdal Asqalan
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Julis
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Kawkaba
↗        
al-Jiyya  ←
Bayt Tima
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Bayt Jirja
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Hulayqat
↘           
Beersheba Bedouins
Schools In 1946, Bayt Tima shared with the nearby villages of Kawkaba and Hulayqat an elementary school for boys.
Places of Warship One Mosque
Shrines / Maqams The village had two shrine for a couple of unknown individuals.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 No settlements on village lands.
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Village Before Nakba

The village was built on flat terrain on the southern coastal plain in a region rich with archaeological artifacts, including some from the Crusades. A secondary road linked it to the coastal highway a short distance to the west, affording it access to Gaza and the city of al-Majdal. In 1596, Bayt Tima was a village in the nahiya of Gaza (liwa' of Gaza), with a population of 693. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, fruit, almonds, and sesame, as well as on other types of produce, such as goats and beehives.

In the late nineteenth century, Bayt Tima was a village of moderate size with two pools and shrines, and two small patches of garden nearby. During the Mandate, the village had its own shops and a mosque, and shared an elementary school, built in 1946, with the neighboring villages of Kawkaba and Hulayqat. Its mud houses were grouped together in blocks, separated by streets or open space; the largest block was at the center of the village. Most of the residents of Bayt Tima were Muslims. They worked mainly in rainfed agriculture, cultivating grain, vegetables, and fruits, especially figs, apricots, and almonds. In 1944/45 a total of 10,444 dunums was allotted to cereals; 197 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. In the cemetery south of the village a badly worn tessellated (mosaic) pavement was found that suggests a Roman or Byzantine presence. One could also see evidence in the village mosque that architectural elements from earlier times had been reused.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

A Zionist attempt to infiltrate Bayt Tima was recorded as early as 9 February 1948, according to the Jaffa-based Palestinian daily Filastin. That attempt was driven back by a hail of bullets from the village's defenders which went on for half an hour.

An aerial and artillery bombardment in mid-October 1948 led to the flight of a large number of refugees from Bayt Tima, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris. The village was occupied on 18–19 October, in the early stages of Operation Yoav. The New York Times quoted an Israeli army communiqué on 20 October which said that Bayt Tima had fallen along with Kawkaba and Hulayqat. It was probably captured by the Giv'ati Brigade.

Israeli sources had told the Associated Press that they had occupied Bayt Tima at the beginning of June. They claimed they captured it while 'slashing behind an Egyptian coastal spearhead' on 1 June. But the occupation was apparently short-lived, since Israeli forces also threatened Bayt Tima a month later, according to Egyptian writer Muhammad Abd al-Mun'im. He writes that at the end of the first truce, in early July, the village was held by Palestinian militiamen. Israeli forces encroached on the village, occupying the hills overlooking the village, and its defenders were reinforced by a Saudi company fighting on the southern front. It remained in Arab hands throughout the second truce.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands.

Village Today

Sycamore and carob trees grow around the rubble on the site. The land is used for agriculture.

Source

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