Bir Ma'in - بئر ماعين: Palestine villages destroyed

Palestine
Palestine villages destroyed

Certain villages of Bir (Bir Imain)


Location: PGR: 152143
Distance from Ramle (km): 14
Average height (in meters): 275
Land ownership and use in 1944/1945 (acres):
Property use:
Arabic: 9317 planted: 3056
Jewish: 0 (% of total): (33)
Commons: 2 built: 9

Total: 9319
Population: 1931: 355
1944/1945: 510
The number of homes (1931): 85

Bear particular before 1948

The village was based on the land of jagged at the tip of the western slopes of the mountains of Ramallah. The side road reached by the path of Ramla - Ramallah-General (who was passing from the north-east of the village. The Bear certain built around a well old namesake. He called Crusaders Bermeynin (Bermenayn) and made Iqatap suspended the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the twelfth century AD. in 1596, Bear particular village in the area Ramla (Brigade Strip), and a population of 165 people. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, olive, sesame, in addition to other elements of the production and exploited, such as goats, beehives, and a press that was used for olives or grapes .
In the nineteenth century, described as a Bear a small farm based on a high from the ground. In modern times the village was divided into two parts, north and south, separated by a street paved with stones. The northern section is rectangular in shape, while the southern section in the form of a semi-circle. The houses were built of stone and mud, many of which have been built in recent years of the Mandate period, particularly in the North West.
The inhabitants of a certain Bear of Muslims in most of them, they have a mosque next to a primary school was founded in 1934. The territory of the village water-rich groundwater, which enabled the population of planting grain variety, such as grain
Still Binaan dilapidated walls watching the site which coat defer cactus and thorny plants and plant tail of mouse and man the bathroom and almond trees and pine. And used a section of land surrounding the field of archery, and other Israeli military purposes. The other division Weserah Israelis.


And vegetables, grapes, figs, plums, almonds and olives, which was a tree covers an area of 146 dunums. In 1944/1945, a total of 2880 dunums allocated to cereals, and 176 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. It was in the vicinity of the village contains three ruined houses on the basis of study, and spare columns, cisterns, and caves carved in the rock, and landfills, and corral a large square.

Occupation and Depopulation

The occupation of this village in the 15 to 16 July 1948, Israeli forces took control on the road to Ramallah - Latrun General; and this was the goal of the second phase of Operation Dani after the capture of Lydda and Ramle.
And Leroy ((History of the War of Independence)) that the units that participated in the seizure of the village was composed of two platoons of the first and second battalions of the brigade Jephthah. In a counter-attack launched on the afternoon of July 16, the Jordanian Arab army suffered heavy losses when he tried, in vain, and salvage the villages of Mit Parvilip neighbors. The next day, quoted by the Associated Press that the Israeli forces stationed in the villages of Bir particular subject and the tower through the Latrun - Ramallah-General of the fire and light weapons.
Israeli settlements on village lands
In 1986, established a colony Maccabim military on the territory of the village.

The Village Today

Still Binaan dilapidated walls watching the site which coat defer cactus and thorny plants and plant tail of mouse and man the bathroom and almond trees and pine. And used a section of land surrounding the field of archery, and other Israeli military purposes. The other division Weserah Israelis.

The village

Have been expelled my family the village from their village at the hands of Israeli terrorism by force of arms and distributes the villagers to the camps of Palestine and the Diaspora, where most villagers now in the camp of Kalandia and Aldhicpvi occupied Palestine and the rest were deployed in parts of the world where you live the majority in Jordan and the United States and Guatemala, where numbered more than 4000 A is unofficial estimates up to 2009 where he managed the village of sincere efforts to discharge them from the new Some doctors, engineers and people with graduate degrees Rabtin between the past and their eyes toward the future Turnoa have returned to Palestine. Palestine, all Palestine .. Hurreh The occupation continues.



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