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Welcome To Bashshit - بشيت (בשית)

District of al-Ramla
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 13, 1948
Distance From District 16.5 (km) Southwest of al-Ramla
Elevation 50 (meters)
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Map Location See location #41 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Barak (lightening)
Attacking Units Giva'ti brigade
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains Bashshit was mostly destroyed with the exception of few houses remain standing.
Ethnically Cleansing Bashshit inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 18,538
Jewish 0
Public 15
**Total 18,553
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 66
Irrigated & Plantation 651
Olive Groves 67
Planted W/ Cereal 17,558
Built up 58
Arable 18,275
Non-Arable 220
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 936
1931 1,125
1945 1,620
1948 1,879
Est. Refugees 1998 11,540
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 333
1948 556
Near By Townswhat's new
al-Nabi Rubin
         
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'Arab Suqrir  
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Barqa

Yasur
           
al-Masmiyya al-Kabira
Town's Name Through History The Crusades referred to Bashshit by Basit.
Schools An elementary school for boys which was founded in 1921, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of 148 students.
Places of Warship One mosque
Shrines / Maqams One shrine for unknown individual
Nearby Wadies & Rivers Wadi Bashshit ran 1/2 km to the East.
Archeological Sites The village contains khirbat al-Nabi 'Ararat, which has pillars, cisterns, and pottery.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
Newe Mivtach, Meshar, Kefar Mordekhay, Misgav Dov, Kannot, Shedema, and 'Aseret.
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Village Before Nakba

The village was located on the central coastal plain. Wadi Bashshit, a tributary of Wadi al-Sarar, ran 0.5 km east of it. During the Crusader period the village was known as Basit. Bashshit was mentioned by at least two early Arab geographers, Yaqut al-Hamawi (d. 1228) and Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali (d. 1678). Al-Hamawi reported in his Mu'jam that the village was close to Ramla. Al-Hanbali, in his Shadharat, said that the grammarian and chronicler Jamal al-Bashshiti (d. 1417) came from the village. In the late nineteenth century, Bashshit was a village built of adobe bricks with cultivated gardens nearby. Above the village stood a three-domed shrine.

The modern village had a rectangular shape, extending in an east-west direction. Its population was predominantly Muslim. It had an elementary school, established in 1921, with an enrollment of 148 pupils by the mid-1940s. A mosque stood at the village center. It had a number of artesian wells. The principal economic activities of the residents were agriculture and animal husbandry. Grain was their chief crop but they also tended fruit trees in the orchards that bordered the village on the west and northeast. In 1944/45 they allotted 66 dunums of land to citrus and bananas and 17,558 dunums to cereals; 651 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, including 67 dunums of olives. The village contained archaeological debris and the remains of an altar. Nearby was an archaeological site, al-Nabi Arafat, that contained pillars, cisterns, and pottery

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

In an attempt to extend its area of control, the Giv'ati Brigade occupied Bashshit on 12 or 13 May 1948, just before the end of the British Mandate. The Associated Press reported that the Haganah claimed to have captured three villages in this area on 12 May; Bashshit, one of the captured villages, was described in the Haganah statement as a 'strong Arab center.' Israeli historian Benny Morris dates its occupation one day later and claims that it was evacuated by its residents before the attack. The History of the Haganah confirms the general picture without giving a definite date, but it states, probably incorrectly, that the Alexandroni Brigade was responsible for the offensive.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are seven Israeli settlements on village land: Newe Mivtach, Meshar, Kefar Mordekhay, and Misgav Dov, all founded in 1950; Kannot, founded in 1952; and Shedema, and Aseret, founded in 1954.

Village Today

Three houses and a pool remain. Two of the houses are deserted and one is occupied by an Israeli family. One of the deserted houses is box-shaped and has a flat roof and a rectangular door with a stone frame. The occupied house, a two-storey, concrete structure, has a flat roof and a rectangular entrance and windows. Cactuses and sycamore and eucalyptus trees grow on the site. The surrounding lands are cultivated by Israelis.

Source

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

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اماني هنداوي هنداوي -
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