Welcome To Bayt Lid, Khirbat - خربة بيت ليد (ח'ירבת בית ליד)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

April 5, 1948

Distance From District

12 (km) West of Tulkarm

Elevation

25 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #10 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Coastal Clearing

Attacking Units

Alexandroni Brigade

Exodus Cause

Fear of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting

Village Temains

Khirbat Beit Lid was completely destroyed and defaced.

Ethnically Cleansing

Bayt Lid, Khirbat inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	2,969
Jewish	2,220
Public	147
**Total	5,336

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	64	7
Olive Groves	50	0
Planted W/ Cereal	2,877	2,213
Built up	23	0
Arable	2,941	2,220
Non-Arable	152	0

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1922	206
1931	298
1945	460
1948	534
Est. Refugees 1998	3,277

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	75
1948	134

Town's Name Through History

The Crusaders referred to KhirbatBeit Lid by Arthabec.

Schools

Khirbat Bayt Lid had an elementary school for boys which was solely financed by the villagers.

Inhabitants Place of Origin

The village was founded by Palestinian Arabs from the nearby village of Bayt Lid.

Places of Warship

One mosque

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Nordiyya and Gannot Radar

Village Before Nakba

The village lay on a slightly elevated hill on undulating terrain that overlooked the coastal plain. Secondary roads linked the village to two nearby highways that crossed the country from north to south and from east to west, providing the village with a connection to Tulkarm. The village was established by people from the village of Bayt Lid who moved to the nearby lower plain in order to exploit the agricultural lands there. They eventually settled on the archaeological site of Khirbat Hunnuna, which came to be known as Khirbat Bayt Lid, after the mother village. The nearby site of al-Mughayr, less than 0.5 km to the north, is identified with the Crusader village of Arthabec (140192). AI-Mughayr was described by the late nineteenth-century British surveyors of Palestine as a small village with olive trees to the north and south.

The people of Khirbat Bayt Lid were Muslims and maintained a mosque. The village also had a community elementary school maintained totally by the residents; this was unusual, as village schools in Palestine even when established by the villagers themselves were subsequently integrated into the public school system and maintained by the government. The residents obtained their domestic water from a deep well. They earned their living primarily from agriculture, which was based on grain, melons, peanuts, potatoes, and olives. Olive trees covered about 50 dunums of land. In 1944/45 a total of 2,877 dunums was allocated to cereals; 64 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The earliest incident at the village during the war was reported on 14 February by the Palestinian press. On that date, the newspaper Filastin stated that a village woman was shot and wounded by unknown assailants. Tensions generally ran high in the vicinity of this village in the early weeks of the war. The village was located east of the Jewish settlement of Netanya in an area (between Tel Aviv and Zikhron Ya'aqov) which the Haganah General Staff decided to 'clear' of Arabs before 15 May 1948, in anticipation of the declaration of the Jewish state. Israeli historian Benny Morris says that the villagers of Khirbat Bayt Lid evacuated' out of fear and isolation' on 5 April. But many residents of the coastal area were forcibly expelled over the coming few weeks, and the village had already been targeted by Plan Dalet for occupation by the Alexandroni Brigade.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Nordiyya (140191) was established on the village site in 1948. Gannot Hadar (140192), established in 1964, is about 0.5 km northeast of the village site; it is not on village land.

Village Today

The village site is covered with orchards (mainly citrus). A few olive trees remain. The surrounding land is planted in citrus and other fruits.

Source

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

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