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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 View from satellite |
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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 |
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Land Usage As of 1945 |
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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 NakbaThe 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 CleaningThe 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 LandsThe 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 TodayA 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.SourceDr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains. |
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Related Maps | Town Lands' Demarcation Maps خرائط للقضاء توضح حدود القرى والاودية Town's map on MapQuest View from satellite Help us map this town at WikiMapia |
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ياسين الحمادشة | - | عمان |
رسلان ندى | - | عمان |
محمد فارس حماد | - | Texas, USA |
عصام عبدالفتاح | الحمادشة | - |
ابرهيم محمد ابراهيم ابو اجنيد | الرديني | - |
محمد ابراهيم محمد ابو اجنيد | الرديني | - |
مازن احمد زكي ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
زيد عبدالله زكي ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
أسيد صالح زكي ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
اكرم ابراهيم ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
محمد صالح زكي ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
حسين محمد حسين ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
أريام إسماعيل أبوجنيد | الرديني | الزرقاء |
رتاج اسماعيل ابوجنيد | الرديني | الزرقاء |
عبدالله ماهر ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
علي زكي ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
محمد حسين ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
احمد زكي ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
محمد زكي ابوجنيد | الرديني | نجران |
عبدالله زكي ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
صالح زكي ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
ماهر زكي ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
زكي صالح ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
عبدالرحمن حسن ابوجنيد | الرديني | - |
ابراهيم حسن ابوجنيد | الرديني | - |
محمد جواد ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
احمد جواد ابوجنيد | الرديني | - |
ابراهيم أمجد ابوجنيد | الرديني | الزرقاء |
رامي جواد ابوجنيد | الرديني | جدة |
جواد محمود ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
حسن ابراهيم ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
محمود حسين ابوجنيد | الرديني | عمان |
إسماعيل أحمد أبوجنيد | الرديني | - |
أمجد أحمد ابوجنيد | الرديني | - |
ابراهيم أحمد أبوجنيد | الرديني | - |
محمد ابراهيم أبوجنيد | الرديني | الزرقاء |
احمد حسين ابو جنيد | الرديني | عمان |
ابو حسين | - | عمان |
saleh aljurf | aljurf | amman, jordan |
iyad abu alhaj | - | - |
يحيى الحمادشة | - | عمان, عمان |
مهند اعمر | اعمر | Jordan, jordan |
خليل كمال حسان | حسان | England, United Kingdom |
هيثم محمد عبدالله بدوان الحمادشه | الحمادشه | - |
عبدالرحمن عبدالله بدوان الحمادشه | الحمادشه | - |
عمر عبدالله بدوان الحمادشه | الحمادشه | - |
محمد عبدالله بدوان الحمادشه | الحمادشه | - |
ابوالوليد | حمادشه | قلقيلية |
علاء الدين شرف | شرف | - |
ابو عمر | ندا | عمان, الاردن |
أبو جمعة | حمدوش | - |
zakareya nada | nada | - |
د.عبدالرحمن مصطفى أبوالرز الرمحي | الرمحي | Amman, Jordan |
ا. عبد اللطيف محمود احمد عطاالله | - | - |
hebo | - | - |
areej hammoudeh | - | - |
Enass Hammoudeh | Hammoudeh | - |
أفـضـل نـدا | نـدا | kuwait, kuwait |
سليمان رحال | رحال | عمان, الخيرية |
د.محمد رحال | - | عمان |
د .جمال رحال | رحال | الاردن |
أم محمد | أبوالرز -الرمحي | الأردن-عمان |
أحمد إبراهيم | الرديني | Zarka, Jordan |
اأمجد ابراهيم | الرديني | Zarqa, Jordan |
ابراهيم صالح ابوجنيد | الردينية | zarka, jordan |
إسماعيل أبو جنيد | الردينية | الزرقاء, الاردن |
sumaia | nada | Amman, Jordan |
ياسر عبدالهادي الرديني | - | amman, jordan |
الحسن مصطفى ابوالرز | ابو الرز- الرمحي | الخبر |
Abu Bashar | - | Amman, Jordan |
أنس عبدالفتاح | عبدالفتاح | Muscat, Oman |
محمد الحمادشه | الحمادشه | - |
احمد عبدالله بدوان الحمادشه | الحمادشه | الرمثا, الاردن |
aljurf | الجرف | muscat, oman |
nidal shaheen | imar | abu dhabi, UAE |
أمينطه عليان | - | - |
د. حسين أبو الرز - الرمحي | أبو الرز - الرمحي | عمان , الأردن |
Tarek El-Farawi | Farawi | Montreal, Canada |
محمد عمر | - | - |
Naser al-haj | abu-alhaj | السعوديه |
ايمن | ابوالرز | - |
عبدالله حسان | - | - |
[email protected] | - | - |
مأمون رحال رحال | رحال | عمان |
RAHHAL | - | AMMAN |
Sarah Eljurf | Eljurf | - |
محمود جميل حسان | حسان | amman, jordan |
عماد الدين جميل حسان | حسان | amman, jordan |
عز الدين جميل حسان | حسان | amman, jordan |
محمد جميل حسان | حسان | guangdong, china |
علاء الدين | حسان | GUANGZHOU, CHINA |
ابو الحسن | الرمحي | dammam, ksa |
SAMI HUSSEIN | حمدوش | - |
Dr moayad Omar | omar | nottingham, england |
نادر أيوب | أيوب | AMMAN, AMMAN |
وليد حسين | حــسـان | - |
WALID HUSSEIN HASSAN | HASSAN | - |
Moayad Abdul Fattah | - | KSA |
[email protected] | رميح | - |
محمد القاطوني | قاطوني | Riyadh, KSA |
Raed Abu Al Haj | Abu El Haj | Abu Dhabi, UAE |
ehab mustafa nada | nada | jordan |
Ida | - | - |
saleh ابراهيم | - | palestine, palestine |
Reem Rasheed | Rasheed | Amman, jordan |
زيد أسامة قاطوني | Qatouni | Eastern Region, Saudi Arabia |
معن أسامة قاطوني | Qatouni | Eastern Region, Saudi Arabia |
خالد مصطفى قاطوني | Qatouni | Eastern Region, Saudi Arabia |
محمد مصطفى قاطوني | Qatouni | Eastern Region, Saudi Arabia |
أسامة مصطفى قاطوني | Qatouni | Eastern Region, Saudi Arabia |
مصطفى محمد حسين قاطوني | Qatouni | Eastern Region, Saudi Arabia |
mohammad shaaban | شعبان | - |
منذر أيوب | أيوب | Amman, Jordan |
الكبير أبو طه | ELYYAN | عمان, الأردن |
ABUHAITHAM | ELYYAN | - |
موسى أعمر | أعمر | ksa khobar |
Ahmed Farawi | - | North Carolina, United States |
Where | - | - |
Rafat Jurf | - | Amman, Jordan |
Dima Jurf | - | - |
icewolf | - | - |
Abu Noor | Nada | Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia |
خالد حموده | HAMMOUDEH | - |
Nasser Al Jurf | Al Jurf | Doha, Qatar |
Feras Hammoudeh | Hammoudeh | Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia |
OSAMA NADA | ندى | - |
ashraf nada | nada | dubai, uae |
Rami Al-Natour | Al_Natour | amman, Jordan |
محمد | ندى | qatar, qatar |
Ahmad | حماد | TX, USA |
Mohammad Rawhi Deeb Aljurf | Aljurf | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
Suzan Eljurf Abdo | El jurf | CA, USA |
Omar Jurf | - | Amman, Jordan |
Amal Mohammed Aljurf | - | Qatar |
Majdi Nawwas | - | Jordan, Jordan |
BELAL | SALEM | RAMTHA |
ahmadnada | nada | - |
دبكات | SHALTAF | سرائيل , زعترة |
abed almalek jurf | - | - |
Mohammad Adnan Qatouni | Ramaha | Zarqa, Jordan |
ابو العسود | العسود | HEBRON, IDNA |
mohamad qosiy abd alfatah | abd alfatah | texas, USA |
ALI HASSAN | HASSAN | GUANGZHOU, CHINA |
Mohammad Qatouni | Qatouni | Saudi Arabia |
Abdullah Abu Salah | Abu Salah | Qalqilia, Palestine |
Mohammed Al-Farawi | Al-Farawi | Ontario, Canada |
Sanaa Shakir Al-jurf | Al-jurf | MONTREAL, Canada |
Nora Farawi | Farawi | Ontario, Canada |
Dema Farawi | Al-Farawi | Ontario, Canada |
Amer Farawi | Al-Farawi | Canada |
taha mohed ali elayyan | - | - |
MUSAB HAITHAM ELAYYAN | Elayyan | - |
هيثم طه محمد علي حسين عليان- ابو مصعب | Ramahi | Abu_Nsair, Jordan |
Abdulla Al - Jurf | Al - Jurf | Amman, Jordan |
Osama AL-JURF | AL-JURF | Block 816, Kingdom of Bahrain |
Ayman Al-Jurf | Al-Jurf | Dubai, UAE |
Raghad Jurf | AlJurf | Alberta, Canada |
Maha Jurf | - | Alberta, Canada |
husam | aljurf | California, U.S.A |
MAHMOUD JURF | - | JORDAN, JORDAN |
Mahmoud Farawi | - | USA |
ali atalla | - | - |
Anas Al-Jurf | - | saudi arabia, riyadh |
Mohammad Nada | Nada | CA, USA |
hatem atalla | - | NABLUS, PALESTINE |
mahmoud atalla | - | ca, usa |
eyad al-jurf | - | Montreal, CANADA |
Jawdah Jorf | - | Edmonton, Canada |
Rand Jurf | - | Canada |
AbdulAziz El-Jurf | - | - |
QAIS ALJURF | - | AMMAN, JORDAN |
Tariq Aljorf | Aljorf | don't know, don't know |
khalid aljorf | - | - |
Mohammed El-Jurf | AlJurf | Amman, Jordan |
Adeeb AlJurf | AlJurf | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
Rasmi Shaker El-Jurf | AlJurf | California, USA |
Dania AlJurf | AlJurf | Jordan |
Abdul Nasir Al-Jurf | Al-Jurf | Eastern Provence, Saudi Arabia |
NASH'AT JURF | - | - |
Bassem Alsukhon | السخن | - |
Jamal Al natour | - | - |
Rula El-Jorf | El-Jorf | - |