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Welcome To al-Khayriyya - الخيرية (אל-ח'יריה)

District of Jaffa
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Occupation Date April 25, 1948
Distance From District 7.5 (km) East of Jaffa
Elevation 25 (meters)
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Map Location See location #17 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Chametz
Attacking Units Alexandroni Brigade
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains al-Khayriyya was mostly destroyed with the exception of few houses and one of the village schools.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Khayriyya inhabitants were intimidate by the Haganah into fleeing sometime in April 1948, and in early May many villagers were interested in coming back and accepting Jewish rule, but this peaceful overture was rejected by the Haganah.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 7,182
Jewish 5,842
Public 648
**Total 13,672
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 3,359 2,623
Irrigated & Plantation 1,275 122
Planted W/ Cereal 2,395 3,097
Built up 26 0
Arable 7,029 5,842
Non-Arable 775 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 154
1922 546
1931 914
1945 1,420
1948 1,647
Est. Refugees 1998 10,116
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 212
1948 382
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Saqiya
Town's Name Through History During the Assyrian period al-Khayryya was called Banai Berka, and in the Romans period it was known by Beneberak. During the British Mandate, the villager changed their village name to al-Khayriyya to distinguish it from the next door Zionist colony of Bene Beraq.
Schools The village had two schools: the 1st was an elementary school for boys founded in 1920, and in 1945 it had an enrollment 183 boys, and the 2nd school was for girls founded in 1945, and it had an initial enrollment of 69 girls (one of the schools is remain standing).
Water Supply al-Khayriyya had numerous artesian wells which supplied it with irrigation and drinking water.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
The suburbs of Giv'atayim are occupying village lands.
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated in a flat area in the central coastal plain. A network of roads passing through and near it afforded the village easy access to the cities of Jaffa, Lydda, Ramla, and Tel Aviv as well as to the surrounding villages. In the early eighth century B.C. the Assyrian king Sennacherib recorded the names of towns on the coastal plain of Palestine that had been conquered, and one of them, Banai Berka, was on the site of al-Khayriyya. In Roman times it was known as Beneberak, and during the Crusades there was a castle on the site that the Crusaders built and called Bombrac. Throughout the Ottoman period the village was known as Ibn Baraq. In 1596, al-Khayriyya was a village in the nahiya of Ramla (liwa' of Gaza) with a population of 154. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, fruits, and sesame, as well as on other types of produce and property, such as goats, beehives, and vineyards. The residents changed the name of their village to al-Khayriyya (the good, the giving) during the Mandate to distinguish it from the Zionist colony of Bene Beraq that was founded 6 km north of the village in 1924.

AI-Khayriyya's population at that time was predominantly Muslim; only twenty of the inhabitants were Christian. The village had two schools, one for boys and another for girls. The boys' school, established in 1920, was attached to a plot of 8 dunums of land used for agricultural training. The girls' school was founded in 1945. By 1946, 183 males and 69 females were enrolled in these schools. The residents worked primarily in agriculture and animal husbandry. In 1944/45 a total of 3,359 dunums of village land was devoted to citrus and bananas and 2,355 dunums were allotted to cereals; 1,275 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Numerous artesian wells supplied them with irrigation water.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The village had been exposed to hostile military activity for several months before it was finally occupied. On 15 December 1947, the Palestinian newspaper Filastin reported that the villagers of al-Khayriyya were digging defensive trenches around the village and manning outposts at its entrances, apparently in response to attacks on nearby Salama and al-'Abbasiyya. On 12 February 1948, the newspaper reported that Zionist forces had moved into an orchard belonging to the village under cover of night and had blown up a house; no casualties were mentioned.

Al-Khayriyya was one of a cluster of villages east of Jaffa occupied during Operation Hametz (see Bayt Dajan, Jaffa sub-district), which was designed to 'cleanse the area' and encircle Jaffa. The village was seized by the Haganah's Alexandroni Brigade on 29 April 1948.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Kefar Azar (135162) was established on what was traditionally village land in 1932. The settlements of Ramat Pinqas (135160) and Ramat Ef'al (134161) were established north of the village site in 1952 and 1969, respectively, on village lands. The site now lies within the suburbs of the town of Giv'atayim (132164).

Village Today

A handful of houses and one of the schools remain. One deserted house, surrounded by shrubs and wild vegetation, has simple architecture: a rectangular door, small side windows, and a flat roof. A two-storey house, identified as having belonged to Ahmad al-Tibi, is used as a store. It has rectangular doors and windows and a gabled roof. Cypress, fig, Christ's-thorn, and orange trees grow on the site. Part of the adjacent land is cultivated and the rest is occupied by buildings.

Source

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

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