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Welcome To Ra'na - رعنا (רענא)

District of Hebron
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Picture for Ra'na Village - Palestine: : An old well in Ra'na #1, July 2002
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date October 22, 1948
Distance From District 26 (km) Northwest of Hebron
Elevation 200 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
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Pre-Nakba Aerial View
Map Location See location #8 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Yo'av (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)
Attacking Units Giv'ati Brigade
Defenders Egyptian Muslim Brotherhoods, local Palestinian militias and some Arab Liberation Army volunteers.
Refugees' Migration Routes Many of the refugees headed for the Hebron hills.
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains Ra'na was completely obliterated and defaced.
Ethnically Cleansing Ra'na inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 6,923
Jewish 0
Public 2
**Total 6,925
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 112
Olive Groves 146
Planted W/ Cereal 5,882
Built up 14
Arable 5,994
Non-Arable 917
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 126
1931 150
1945 190
1948 220
Est. Refugees 1998 1,354
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 36
1948 52
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Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
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Village Today

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"The site is fenced in with barbed wire and is overgrown in part by cactuses, especially where there is limestone soil, and by carob trees. No houses or rubble remains."
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Bibliography and References

Display Name Clan/Hamolah Country of Residence
يحيى خاطر - الرصيفة
ابو ثائر خاطر فست فالين المانيا, المانيا
اشرف ابوحمره ال خاطر -
احمد خاطرخاطر خاطر الزرقاء, الاردن
هبه خاطر خاطر عمان, الاردن
حسام ابوحمرة خاطر خاطر الاردن, الاردن
murad alhawi - -
nats semreen - -
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