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Welcome To Bayt Nabala - بيت نبالا (בית נבאלא)

District of al-Ramla
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Occupation Date May 13, 1948
Distance From District 10 (km) Northeast of al-Ramla
Elevation 100 (meters)
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Pre-Nakba Aerial View
Map Location See location #6 on the map

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Military Operation Second stage of Operation Dani
Defenders Jordanian Army
Exodus Cause Abandonment based on Arab orders
Village Temains On September 13th, 1948, Bayt Nabala was completely obliterated with the exception of its school, see Pictures section for details.
Ethnically Cleansing Bayt Nabala inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Terminating Refugee Camps Village refugees were scattered around Dayr Ammar, Ramallah City, Bayt Tillow, Rantiss, and al-Jalazoun refugee camps North of Ramallah.
Clans For now, we're aware of the following clans: Nakhleh, Safi, Sharakah, al-Khateeb, and Zeid. If your clan name is not listed, please do not hesitate to contant us.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 14,427
Jewish 0
Public 624
**Total 15,051
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 226
Irrigated & Plantation 1,733
Olive Groves 2,680
Planted W/ Cereal 10,199
Built up 124
Arable 12,158
Non-Arable 2,769
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 297
1922 1,324
1931 1,758
1945 2,310
1948 2,680
Est. Refugees 1998 16,456
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses In (1931): 471 (includes Kafr Jinnis)
Near By Townswhat's new
Wilhelma
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al-Tira
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Rantis
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Dayr Tarif  ←
Bayt Nabala
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al-Lydd
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al-Haditha
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Budrus
Schools An elementary school for boys founded in 1921, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of 230 students.
Places of Warship One Mosque
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Kefar Truman (named after the U.S. president Truman) and Beyt Nechemya.
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Village Before Nakba

The village, situated on a rocky hill that sloped downward toward the southwest, overlooked the plain around Lydda to the east of Lydda airport. It was east of a highway leading to Ramla, Jaffa, and other cities. Bayt Nabala's accessibility to urban centers was enhanced by the secondary railway track that connected it to the Rafah-Haifa railway line. Another secondary road connected it to neighboring villages to the east and southeast. In 1596, Bayt Nabala was a village in the nahiya of Ramla (liwa' of Gaza) with a population of 297. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, olives, and fruit, as well as on other types of property, such as goats, beehives, and a press that was used for processing either olives or grapes.

In the late nineteenth century, Bayt Nabala was a moderate-sized village situated at the edge of a plain. The British set up a military camp in the vicinity during the Mandate. During that period, the village was laid out in a rectangular grid, its secondary streets running parallel to two main streets that intersected at the center. A mosque, a number of shops, and an elementary school were clustered at this intersection. The school was founded in 1921 and had an enrollment of about 230 students in 1946-47. The villagers, most of whom were Muslims, built their houses of mud and stone. They earned their living from agriculture, cultivating grain (particularly wheat), olives, grapes, and fruits such as citrus and figs. Agriculture was primarily rainfed, but the citrus groves were irrigated from artesian wells. The village was ringed by farmland except in the west-southwest half-quadrant. In 1944/45 a total of 226 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 10,197 dunums were allocated to cereals; 1,733 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Two khirbas stood south of the village.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Bayt Nabala was mentioned in the operational orders for Operation Dani. According to Israeli historian Benny Morris, Israeli forces were ordered to attack Bayt Nabala, where the Arab Legion had stationed a second-line company (of around 120-150 soldiers), after the capture of Lydda and Ramla. On 13 July 1948, the people of Lydda were expelled from their city and many were forced by Israeli soldiers to go to Bayt Nabala (which was still in Arab hands). The village probably fell a few days later, before the end of Operation Dani on 18 July. The New York Times reported that a unit of Israeli commandos stormed the outskirts of the village on 11 July to foil an Arab attempt to recapture the nearby Wilhelma, an agricultural colony founded by German Templars before World War I. But a later dispatch said that Arab forces recaptured the village on 12 July to establish shelling positions and counter Israeli attacks against Lydda. The Times story reported that the village was entered by Arab Legion armored cars; however, they were sent too late and were unable to relieve Lydda. The wire services reported that on 13 July, after a 'stiff' fight in which Israeli tanks and armored cars clashed with Arab Legion armored cars, Bayt Nabala was taken by the Israelis. The next day, it was reported to be a no man's land, but 'no longer a threat to Lydda or Ramleh,' both of which were in Israeli hands. A few days later, the New York Times said that the village had been taken before the second truce was signed on 18 July.

Morris claims that the residents of Bayt Nabala were evacuated from their village at the command of the Arab Legion some two months earlier, on 13 May. This cannot be confirmed. As for the village itself, a formal request for its destruction was made to the Israeli Ministerial Committee on Abandoned Property by Prime Minister Ben-Gurion on 13 September 1948.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Kefar Truman (in honor of American president Harry Truman), was established in 1949; it is west of the village site. The settlement of Beyt Nechemya, founded in 1950, is south of the site. Both are on village lands.

Village Today

The site is overgrown with grass, thorny bushes, and cypress and fig trees. It lies on the east side of the settlement of Beyt Nechemya, due east of the road from the Lod (Lydda) airport. On its fringes are the remains of quarries and crumbled houses. Sections of walls from the houses still stand. The surrounding land is cultivated by the Israeli settlements.

Source

Dr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains.
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Display Name Clan/Hamolah Country of Residence
Maher Shawkat Khaled Safi MEMPHIS, United States
Mahammed Mahmoud Rabah Nakhleh San Francisco, USA
Yousef Akram Sharaka Sharaka Winnipeg, Canada
Jamal Abdul Hakeem Saleh Zeid United states
ابو اسماعيل شراكه فلسطين, فلسطين
يوسف صباح نخله عمان, الاردن
اسامة سلامة "نخلة" نخلة عمان, الاردن
محمد عبدالوحيد محمد نخله نخلة الاردن - عمان
TAMADOR ZAID - ALBERTA, CANADA
RAMI HAMED ABED Alberta, CANADA
محمد عبدالرحمن قطيفان زيد فلسطين, فلسطين
رضا عساف صافي الشارقة, الامارات
NABALI - KUWAIT, KUWAIT
محمد فوزي النبالي صافي اربد
محمود صافي صافي عمان, الاردن
عصام موسى خالد Safi Al-Riyadh
neda2 nakhlih - at zarqa, jordan
رمزي النبالي - عمان, الاردن
othman kamel orabi nakhleh nakhleh رام الله
wisam ktefan zayd amman
Abdelkarim Zeid ZEID IL, USA
Murad Ahmed Nakhleh Nakhleh IL, USA
HAMDALLAH MOHAMMAD ZAID Zaid MB, Canada
mohamed thieb khaddash nakhleh jordan, amman
يزيد مرعب مرعب - -
رنا زيد زيد رام الله
روان زيد - -
موسى يوسف عساف صافي Manama, Bahrain
Alaa Salameh nkhleh Amman, Jordan
Ibrahem salameh Nakhleh Amman, Jordan
عثمان الخزاعي النخلة AMMAN
Akram Assaf Safi Ca., USA
مصطفى بدوان - الرياض, السعودية
يافا صافي رام الله, فلسطين
abu ammar SAFI K.SA / YANBU, BAIT NABALA
Hamzie zeid manitoba, canada
ghandi daineh zaid il, usa
GHADEER ALHEET ZEAD -
محمد نمر خداش- ابو اليزيد النخلة عمان, المملكة الاردنية الهاشمية
roseanna - -
ibrahim assaf - sharjah, UAE
tariq nakhleh - new york, new york
أديب سليمان - Palestine, Palestine
HaSSaN AmiN ZAID RamallaH - Bait Nabala, PalestinE
mahran zaid -
عصام صالح z -
AYA SALAMEH NAKHLEH JORDAN_AMMAN
Ahmad Baker Zaid Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
حسن النبالي الشراكة الوحدات, الأردن
اكرم النبالي زيد الخبر, السعودية
صافي صافي بير زيت, فلسطين
Alaa sharaka Amman, Jordan
Mohammed Ali Nakhleh - -
عبدالله النخله الاردن, الاردن
قطيفان - -
Samed Ali Juma Nakhla Nakhla Sogn og fjordane, Norway
FAWAZ SAFI TAHA SAFI SAFI OHIO, USA
ابو صلاح زيد -
abu adam - -
shawqi abdelhadi abdelhadi -
MAJED EID SHAFI ZAID MILANO, ITALIA
ammar1 safi asg, asdfg
Hasan Y. H. El-Heet زيـد Texas , USA
SalahAssaf Safi Amman, Jordan
Tariq Quteifan Zaid London, United Kingdom
jalal khaled SAFI FALCON, VENEZULA
moh ibrahem khaleel safi safi -
khaled mohammed ali saleh musleh zaid ohio, usa
عزت الخطيب ALKHATIB -
ahmad salameh alshrakh jordan, jordan
هيثم المشهور زيـــد دبي, الإمارات
Dawlah Al_Mashhur Zaid Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dalia Al_Mashhur Zaid Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
أكثم المشهور زيـــد دبي, الإمارات
هيثم المشهور زيــد الإمارات
حسني المشهور زيـــد الريـاض, السعودية
Maen Mohamad Orabi Nakhleh Al Nabali Jeddah, SAUDI ARABIA
NAKHELAH NAKHELAH TX, na
KHALED ISSA NAKHELAH MISSOURI, U S A
mahmoud harb Quteifan amman, jordan
mohammed mosleh na5leh amman, jordan
Hiyam Othman Safi CA, USA
مي زيد ماركا, الاردن
Ahmad Mahmmoud Salama nakhleh Missouri, usa
Aman Assaf Safi Amman, Jordan
Khaled Assaf Safi Amman, Jordan
Yaser Salameh nakhleh MO, United States
Ahmad Safi Safi Dammam, Saudi Arabia
ALI NAKHLA NAKHLA -
Mohammad Yassin Anabali Naklah Amman, Jordan
SAMIH ABDUL-RAHMAN SALEH ZAID -
الشامي صافي AMMAN
صبحي عساف عساف عمان, الاردن
Qutiefan Bayt Nabala illinois, USA
اياد عابد عابد - شراكة عمان, الاردن
Bahija Noris H Zeid Zaid Manitoba, Canada
Othman safy Safi Am, Jordan
abdul hakeem saleh zaid west bank, palestenian authority
abo safi safi ramallah, palestine
Dr.suhail al-nabali Safi west bank, Palestine
Mahmoud Yasin Nakhleh Illinois, United States
ayman safi Safi amman, amman
Ahmed Saleh zaid IL, USA
mohamad safi - -
Mouna Hamdallah Zeid Zaid MB, Canada
Mohammad Mouna Zaid Zeid MB, Canada
belo zeid jordan, jordan
Yaser Badwan Zeid OH, OH
Taysir zied Amman, Jordan
Al Jallal (الجلال) Assaf Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Ahmad Assaf Assaf Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
ahmad yousef assaf Assaf saudi arabia, 00966
ABDELRAHMAN MOUNA ZEID ZAID MB, CANADA
abdallah shatat safe hfg, sf
Amira Mouna Zeid Zeid Manitoba, Canada
Mohammad Mouna Zeid - Manitobae, Canada
Husni Daous ( Dawas ) ZAID Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Loay Qutiefan Zaid Saudi Arabia
Saleem Saleh Quteifan Zaid Amman, Jordan
Amjad Quteifan Zaid KSA
Abu Omar - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Rami Ramadan Abed-Sharaka Khobar, KSA
DR MUSA SALEH ZAID JORDAN, JORDAN
Mohamad Joma'a Hasan Nakhleh Nakhleh Ramallah, Ramallah / Palestine
abed el rahim mosa nakhleh nakhleh Buskerud, norway
abed el nasser mosa nakhleh nakhleh Skien, norway
khaled makhlouf aqba, jordan
YOUSEF RASHED Safi IL, USA
MOHAMMAD SALEH MUSLEH ZAID OH, USA
Imad Nakhleh Nakhleh Manitoba, Canada
Saleh Khaddash Khaddash NJ, USA
SHIHADEH ZEID AMMAN, JORDAN
nakhleh Nakhleh Denamrk, Denmark
Ahmed Orabi Nakhleh Riyadh, KSA
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Ahmed Nakhleh Nakhleh Illinois, USA
Raéd Shaqdih Zaid -
Rawd Omran Saleh Zaid OHIO, USA
Khadejeh Saleh Zaid Ohio, US
othman safi Safi Amman, Jordan
FATHE IQTAIFAN ZAID ky USA, kentucky usa
Mohammad Saleh Zaid amman, jordan
A-Hakim Zeid Zeid Manitoba, Canada
Wael Zeid Zeid MB, Canada
ALI SALEH ZAID OHIO, USA
NASER YOUSEF nakhleh texas, usa
Ali Abdel Aziz Said Assaf Safi Amman, Jordan
Abdulhadi Ramadan Aabed Amman, Jordan
Abedelsalam Rabah Nakhleh Alabama, USA
Dr. Husam Aldeen Al-Khadash - Amman, Jordan
Moh'd Talal Khalil Husieen Yousef Nakhleh Jordan
mohammad al_masri masri al_masri amman, jordan
Mousa Tabab NAKHALA M O, U A S
Nabali Zaid Ohio, USA
Abdullah Zaid zaid Jeddah
mohammad hasan zaben sharakah - -
ayoub jamal alayoubi zead amman, jordan
akram assaf safi ca, usa
Issa Jamil Issa Al Hagi Zaid Modena, Italia
mahmoud ayoub zaed amman, jordan
assaf Assaf Italia, Italia
subhi ahmad badwan zaid amman, jordan
Prof. Yacob Ahmad Saleh ZAID Chicago IL
mohamad juma,a nakhleh nakhleh ramallah, palestine
Jamal Assaf Safi CA, USA
nakhleh - denmark, denmark
osama khaled safi jordan
mouna zeid zaid mb, canada
zahai zeid zeid winnipeg, canada
Reema Said Saleh Zaid Ohio, USA
noris zaid mb, canada
Ghassan Ibrahim Khalil Nakhala jordan, Jordan
Musleh Salameh NAKHLEH -
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Ashraf Assaf Safi CA, USA
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MaryJane Nakhleh LA, USA
maen abd alfatah zeid New Jersey , U S A
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Abed el-Rrahim Nakhleh Nakhleh Oslo, Norway
hatem zaid amman, jordan
safi safi Zaid Palestine, palestine
ahmad17611 nakhleh nj, usa
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Riad Nakhleh Nakhleh IL, USA
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belal nakhleh amman, jordan
Ahmad Salameh Nakhleh Aqaba, Jordan
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Mahmoud Ahmed Salameh Nakhleh Amman, Jordan
Thaer Ahmed Salameh Nakhleh Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Noris Zeid Zeid Manitoba, Canada
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Mamoun Atiyah Salameh Nakhleh Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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