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Welcome To al-Burj, Khirbat - خربة البرج (ח'ירבת אל-ברג')

District of Haifa
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date February 15, 1948
Distance From District 34.5 (km) South of Haifa
Elevation 25 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #44 on the map

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Military Operation Terror campaign before the start of the war
Attacking Units Some unknown terror unit from the Haganah.
Exodus Cause Fear of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting
Village Temains The village has been completely obliterated, only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Burj, Khirbat inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 15
Jewish 4,933
Public 343
**Total 5,291
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 0 968
Irrigated & Plantation 13 1,190
Planted W/ Cereal 0 2,607
Arable 13 4,765
Non-Arable 345 168
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Archeological Sites Khirbat al-Burj contained khirbat Tel al-Burayj, which had the foundations of buildings and granite columns.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Binyamina

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on rolling terrain on the central coastal plain. It was known for its citrus crops. In 1944 a total of 13 dunums of village land was irrigated or used for orchards. The nearby Tall al-Burayj, an archaeological site, contained the foundations of buildings and granite columns.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Khirbat al-Burj was probably seized in the early weeks of the fighting. The nearest Arab community to it was the large village of Qisarya (Caesarea), just to the west. That village was occupied and its people were expelled in mid-February 1948, in the context of an operation designed to render a large swath of coastal territory empty of Arabs in the first few months of the war. By the end of March, many coastal communities between Tel Aviv and Zikhron Ya'aqov had been attacked in a series of raids carried out by Zionist forces. These resulted in driving out entire communities, sometimes through direct expulsion and sometimes through fear of attack, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Binyamina was established in 1922 near the village site, to the north. It is not, however, on village lands.

Village Today

Much of the site is covered by rubble, which lies amid the grass and cactus plants. The walls of a large stone building (possibly a khan ) are still standing. The surrounding lands are used by Israeli farmers for citrus cultivation.

Source

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