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Welcome To Bir Ma'in - بئر ماعين (ביר מעין)

District of al-Ramla
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date July 15, 1948
Distance From District 14 (km) East of al-Ramla
Elevation 275 (meters)
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Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
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Map Location See location #27 on the map

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Military Operation Second phase of Operation Dani
Attacking Units The First and Second Battalions of the Yiftach Brigade
Defenders Jordanian Army
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains Bir Ma'in was mostly destroyed with the exception of two deserted houses remain standing.
Ethnically Cleansing Bir Ma'in inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 9,317
Jewish 0
Public 2
**Total 9,319
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 176
Olive Groves 146
Planted W/ Cereal 2,880
Built up 9
Arable 3,056
Non-Arable 6,254
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 165
1922 47
1931 355
1945 510
1948 592
Est. Refugees 1998 3,633
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 85
1948 141
Near By Townswhat's new
Barfiliya
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al-Burj
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Saffa
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al-Kunayyisa  ←
Bir Ma'in
→   Bayt Sira
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Bayt Shanna
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Ajanjul
↘           
Bayt Liqya
Town's Name Through History The Crusades referred to Bir Ma'in by Bermenayn.
Schools An elementary school for boys which was founded in 1934.
Places of Warship One Mosque
Archeological Sites Three khirbats containing the foundations of houses, fragments of columns, cisterns, caves carved in rock, burial places, and a large square corral.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 The military settlement of Makkabim.
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on rolling terrain on the edge of the western foothills of the Ramallah Mountains. It was linked by a secondary road to the Ramla-Ramallah highway (which passed the village on the northeast), and by other roads to several neighboring villages. Bir Ma'in was built around an old well that bore the same name. It was called Bermenayn by the Crusaders and was a fief of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the twelfth century. In 1596, Bir Ma'in was a village in the nahiya of Ramla (liwa' of Gaza) with a population of 165. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, olives, and sesame, as well as on other types of produce and property, such as goats, beehives, and a press that was used for processing either olives or grapes.

In the late nineteenth century, Bir Ma'in was described as a small hamlet situated on high ground. In modern times it was divided into two sections, separated by a paved street. The northern section was rectangular; the southern one had a semi-circular plan. The houses were made of mud and stone, and many houses were built during the final years of the Mandate, especially in the northwest. The village had a mosque-Bir Ma'in's population was predominantly Muslim-and, next to it, an elementary school that was founded in 1934. Its land was well endowed with ground water, which permitted the villagers to grow a variety of crops, such as grain, vegetables, grapes, figs, plums, almonds, and olives. Olives were planted on 146 dunums.1n 1944/45 a total of 2,880 dunums was allocated to cereals; 176 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Three khirbas next to the village contained foundations of houses, fragments of columns, cisterns, caves carved in rock, burial places, and a large square corral.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

With the occupation of this village on 15-16 July 1948, Israeli forces gained control of the Ramallah-al-Latrun highway. That was the objective of the second phase of Operation Dani (see Abu al-FadI, Ramla sub-disctrict), following the capture of Ramla and Lydda. The History of the War of Independence relates that the units involved in capturing the village were two platoons from the First and Second Battalions of the Yiftach Brigade. In a counterattack during the afternoon of 16 July, the Transjordanian Arab Legion suffered heavy casualties when it tried, unsuccessfully, to recapture the neighboring villages of Salbit and Barfiliya. The following day, as the Associated Press reported, Israeli forces quartered in Bir Ma'in and al-Burj put the al-Latrun-Ramallah highway under small arms fire.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The military settlement of Makkabim was established on village lands in 1986.

Village Today

Two deserted buildings with crumbling walls can be seen on the site, which is otherwise overgrown with cactuses, thorny plants, foxtail, an herbal plant known as anchusa tinctoria (called "dove's foot," or rijl al-hamam, in Arabic), and pine and almond trees. Part of the surrounding land is used for target practice and other Israeli military purposes, and part of it is cultivated by Israeli farmers.

Source

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