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Welcome To Najd - نجد (נג'ד)

District of Gaza
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Occupation Date May 13, 1948
Distance From District 14 (km) North East of Gaza
Elevation 50 (meters)
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Map Location See location #42 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Barak
Attacking Units Negev Brigade
Exodus Cause Expulsion by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village has been completely defaced
Ethnically Cleansing Najd inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 12,669
Jewish 495
Public 412
**Total 13,576
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 10 0
Irrigated & Plantation 511 0
Planted W/ Cereal 11,917 427
Built up 26 0
Arable 12,438 427
Non-Arable 617 68
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 215
1922 305
1931 422
1945 620
1948 719
Est. Refugees 1998 4,417
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 82
1948 139
Schools Najd students attended school in the nearby village of Simsim.
Archeological Sites Najd contained rough, stone foundations of ancient buildings, vaults, and cisterns
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Sderot and Or ha-Ner
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on an elevated spot on the southern coastal plain, and overlooked the agricultural lands around it. Several secondary roads linked it to the coastal highway at points between al-Majdal and Gaza, as well as to villages in the vicinity. Its name meant 'elevated ground' in Arabic. In 1596, Najd was a village in the nahiya of Gaza (liwa' of Gaza), with a population of 215. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and fruit, as well as on other types of produce and property such as goats, beehives, and vineyards.

Edward Robinson, an American biblical scholar who traveled in the area in 1838, noted that Najd lay south of a wadi. He observed the villagers winnowing barley by throwing it into the air against the wind with wooden forks. In the late nineteenth century, Najd was a small village with a well and a pond. As its population grew during the Mandate period, it expanded northwestward. The village population was Muslim, and children attended school in the village of Simsim, 2 km to the northeast. The residents of Najd worked primarily in agriculture and animal husbandry. Fields of grain and fruit trees surrounded Najd on all sides. Fruit trees were concentrated on the north and northeastern sides--where irrigation water was available from wells--and in the beds of the wadis that crossed the lands. In 1944/45 a total of 10 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 11,916 dunums were allocated to cereals; 511 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Khirbat Najd was located south of the village and contained rough, stone foundations of ancient buildings, vaults, and cisterns.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The villagers of Najd were expelled on 13 May 1948, just before the establishment of the state of Israel. Israeli historian Benny Morris writes that the inhabitants of nearby Simsim were expelled at the same time by the Palmach's Negev Brigade. The Brigade launched a number of small pushes northwards and eastwards in coordination with the Giv'ati Brigade's southward expansion in the first half of May.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Two settlements were established on village lands: Sderot, founded in 1951 to the south of the site; and Or ha-Ner, founded in 1957 closer to the site, to the northeast.

Village Today

The site is fenced in. Some old trees grow on it, which suggests that it may have been reclassified as a nature conservation area. The site is overgrown with cactuses and Christ's thorn and sycamore trees and contains the crumbled walls of unidentified buildings whose former uses are difficult to determine. There is also an irrigation canal. The surrounding lands are cultivated by Israeli farmers.

Source

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