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Welcome To Bir Salim - بئر سالم (ביר סאלם)

District of al-Ramla
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 9, 1948
Distance From District 4 (km) West of al-Ramla
Elevation 75 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #15 on the map

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Attacking Units Giva'ti brigade
Defenders Arab Liberation Army volunteers and local Palestinian militia organized by of Hasan Salameh (from Qula).
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains Bir Salem was mostly destroyed with the exception of its water tank remains standing.
Ethnically Cleansing Bir Salim inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 3,288
Jewish 0
Public 113
**Total 3,401
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 742
Irrigated & Plantation 510
Olive Groves 267
Planted W/ Cereal 1,468
Arable 2,720
Non-Arable 681
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1945 410
1948 476
Est. Refugees 1998 2,921
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses At least a hundred houses in 1945
Near By Townswhat's new
Sarafand al-Kharab
          ↖
Abu al-Fadl
↗        
Wadi Hunayn  ←
Bir Salim
→   al-Ramla
            ↙
al-Qubayba
↓
Zionist Colonies
↘           
Tall al-Batteikh
Water Supply A water tank which used to supply the village with drinking water. The tank remain standing and its water still very sweet!
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Netzer Sereni

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on flat terrain on the coastal plain, linked by a spur (which was also the village's main street) to the highway between Ramla and Jaffa. Bir Salim, classified in the Palestine Index Gazetteer as a hamlet, was built along a northeast-southwest axis. Its houses, made of either adobe or cement, were separated by narrow alleys that branched off from the main street. After World War I the British built a military headquarters in the village for General Allenby, who had led the Allied fight against the Ottomans in Palestine and Syria. All of the people of Bir Salim were Muslims. Agriculture, especially citrus cultivation, was their main economic activity. In 1944/45 they used 742 dunums of village land to grow citrus, and 1,468 dunums for cereals. In addition to cultivating crops, the villagers engaged in animal husbandry.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Netzer Sereni (133148) was built on village land in 1948.

Village Today

The site is now occupied by the Israeli settlement of Netzer Sereni. All of the former houses are gone. The old village water tank remains, and some of the old pine trees still grow on village land.

Source

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