Welcome To Barfiliya - برفيلية (ברפיליה)

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Value

Occupation Date

July 14, 1948

Distance From District

10.5 (km) East of al-Ramla

Elevation

200 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Pre-Nakba Aerial View

Map Location

See location #20 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Second phase of Operation Dani

Attacking Units

A force composed of Giv'ati, Kiryati, and Eighth (Armored) brigades

Defenders

Jordanian Army

Exodus Cause

Military assault by Zionist troops

Village Temains

Barfiliya was completely destroyed and defaced.

Ethnically Cleansing

Barfiliya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	7,130
Jewish	0
Public	4
**Total	7,134

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	241
Olive Groves	191
Planted W/ Cereal	2,739
Built up	17
Arable	2,980
Non-Arable	4,137

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1596	44
1922	421
1931	544
1945	730
1948	847
Est. Refugees 1998	5,200

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	132
1948	205

Near By Towns

Zakariyya, Khirbat ↖	'Innaba ↑ (N)	al-Midya ↗
Kharruba ←	Barfiliya	→ al-Burj
↙ al-Kunayyisa	↓ Bayt Shanna	↘ Bir Ma'in

Town's Name Through History

The Crusades referred to the village by Porphylia.

Schools

An elementary school founded in 1946, and when it opened its doors it had an enrollment of 50 students.

Places of Warship

One Mosque

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

No Israeli settlements on village lands

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on the edge of a wadi in the eastern part of the central coastal plain. It was linked by a secondary road to the highway leading to Ramla and other urban centers. Other roads linked it to several neighboring villages. During the Crusader period it was called Porphylia and was a fief of the Holy Sepulchre. In 1596, Barfiliya was a village in the nahiya of Ramla (liwa' of Gaza) with a population of forty-four. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, sesame, and fruit, as well as on other types of property, such as goats, beehives, and vineyards. In the late nineteenth century, Barfiliya was a small hamlet situated on a slope, 200 feet above a valley. The villagers cultivated olives.

In modern times the village had a rectangular layout; its houses, most of which were built of adobe brick, were clustered closely together and separated by narrow alleys. New construction extended towards the southwest along the road to the nearby village of 'Innaba. The villagers were predominantly Muslim. Barfiliya had an elementary school that was established in 1946 with fifty students. The village had one mosque at the center and several shops. The residents cultivated grain and fruit trees, including figs, lemons, olives, and grapes, which were both rainfed and irrigated. In 1944/45 a total of 2,739 dunums was allocated to cereals; 241 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. The village contained the ruins of cisterns and an ancient road. Northwest of the village lay a Khirbat al-Wasan (148145) that contained the remains of a vaulted structure, foundations, a press, rock-hewn cisterns, and a shrine.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

A force composed of Giv'ati, Kiryati, and Eighth (Armored) brigades units moved on Barfiliya on 15-16 July 1948, during the second phase of Operation Dani (see Abu al-Fadl, Ramla sub-disctrict), according to the History of the War of Independence. This occurred after the fall of Lydda and Ramla, as the large force assembled for the operation overran the rest of the Lydda-Ramla Plain and the southern half of the Jerusalem corridor. Israeli historian Benny Morris' description differs slightly from the official Israeli account, putting the attack one day earlier, on 14 July. The official Israeli version is more or less confirmed by a New York Times report, which states that the battle waged around Barfiliya and three other villages on 16 July was the 'most bitter battle of the day.' It is not clear what happened to the inhabitants, but they were probably expelled eastwards, as were many other villagers during the same operation.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land.

Village Today

The village site is used as a military firing range and is closed to the public.

Source

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

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Pre-Nakba Aerial view of the village / صورة من الجو للقرية اخذت قبل النكبة

Display Name	Clan/Hamolah	Country of Residence
Ibrahim Zayed	-	Palestine
حاتم علقم	علقم	عمان
احمد زايد	زايد	رام الله, فلسطين
بيان علقم	علقم	jordan
ابو خالد	عقلم	عمان, الاردن
عاشق الوطن	علقم	عمان, الاردن
نسيبه	alqam	Amman, Jordan
[email protected]	ishnineh	nc, usa
محمد اشنينه	-	-
صلاح اشنينه	اشنينه	عمان, الاردن
محمود الكسبه	-	AMMAN
احمد اسماعيل علقم	-	-
Abo Alez	ISHNEANEH	Now Iam In Kuwait But I was lived in Alwehdat camp in amman Jordan, Now Kuwait
علاء علقم	علقم	Amman, Jordan
فراس علقم	علقم	al_berah
بسام علقم	Mahmood Alqam	Amman
see	alqam	amman
mo3n	mahmod	-
البرفيلي	يعقوب	amman, JORDAN
رشدي علقم	علقم	Amman, Jordan

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