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Welcome To Nitaf District of Jerusalem نطاف - נטאף Ethnically cleansed days ago |
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Israeli occupation date | April 15, 1948 | ||||||||||||
Distance from district center | 17 (km) West of Jerusalem | ||||||||||||
Elevation from the sea | 400 (meters) | ||||||||||||
Map location | See location number #1 on the map | ||||||||||||
Israeli military operation | Second stage of Operation Dani | ||||||||||||
Village remains after destruction by Israelis | Nitaf was mostly destroyed with the exception of ONE deserted house. | ||||||||||||
Ethnically cleansed by Israelis | Nitaf inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed. | ||||||||||||
Land ownership before occupation |
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Land usage in 1945 |
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Population before occupation |
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Shrines/maqams | Nitaf had a maqam for local sage known as al-Shaykh Mas'ud. | ||||||||||||
Water supplies | The villagers used to obtained their domestic water from a spring to the west and depended on rain for watering their crops. | ||||||||||||
Archeological sites | Nitaf was built on an archaeological site and was surrounded by a number of khirbas. | ||||||||||||
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands | The Israeli settlement of "Nataf" is not far from village lands. | ||||||||||||
Related Maps | خرائط تفصيلية للمحافظة Town's map on MapQuest View from satellite Help us map this town at WikiMapia |
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
There is a large, deserted stone house on the site surrounded by old terraces. It is a one-storey house with an arched door and arched windows. Northwest of this house, at the bottom of a slope, stands another deserted house. Most of the village lands fell within the Demilitarized Zone that was delineated by the armistice agreement of 1949 between Israel and Jordan