Welcome To Bayt Far, Khirbat - خربة بيت فار (ח'ירבת בית פאר)

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Statistic & Fact

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Occupation Date

April 7, 1948

Distance From District

14 (km) South of al-Ramla

Elevation

125 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #52 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Possibly Operation Nachshon or Yoram

Exodus Cause

Military assault by Zionist troops

Village Temains

Khirbat Bayt Far was completely obliterated, and only house rubble left behind.

Ethnically Cleansing

Bayt Far, Khirbat inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	5,457
Jewish	0
Public	147
**Total	5,604

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	19
Planted W/ Cereal	5,337
Arable	5,356
Non-Arable	248

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1922	28
1931	26
1945	300
1948	348
Est. Refugees 1998	2,137

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	11
1948	147

Near By Towns

Umm Kalkha ↖	Khulda ↑ (N)	Dayr Muhaysin ↗
	Bayt Far, Khirbat	→ Bayt Jiz
↙ Sajad	↓ al-Burayj	↘ Dayr Rafat

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Beyt Pe'er and Tal Shachar.

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on an elevated, flat spot at the eastern edge of the central coastal plain. It overlooked a broad hilly area that was bounded on the north and south by two tributaries of Wadi al-Sarar that passed the village some 1.5 km to the southwest. A secondary road of about 1.5 km linked the village to a highway that connected Gaza with the Ramla-Jerusalem highway. Both Edward Robinson, an American biblical scholar who traveled in Palestine in the nineteenth century, and the surveyors who carried out research for the Survey of Western Palestine in the 1870s, describe the site during their visits as an abandoned village with modern walls and foundations. Khirbat Bayt Far was laid out in a circular pattern. Its houses were built of cement and mud, clustered together and separated by narrow alleys. Its entire population was Muslim. The majority of villagers worked in animal husbandry and rainfed agriculture, cultivating vegetables and fruits and using parts of their lands as pastures. In 1944/45 a total of 5,337 dunums was allocated to cereals; 19 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. A khirba that carried the village's name lay next to it, which suggests that the site had a long history of habitation.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

It is difficult to determine exactly when this village was first entered by Haganah forces. It may have been captured during Operation Nachshon, but more likely it was captured during Operation Makkabi.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Beyt Pe'er was founded on village lands in 1948. Its name was later changed to Tal Shachar ('Dawn') (140134), which is a rough translation of the family name of Henry Morgenthau, an American supporter of the Zionist movement.

Village Today

All that is left of the village are debris and girders heaped together in a small area. The site is ringed by carob trees. The remains of an uprooted olive grove lie to the north and east.

Source

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

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