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Welcome To Kharruba - خروبة (ח'רובה)

District of al-Ramla
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date July 12, 1948
Distance From District 8 (km) East of al-Ramla
Elevation 175 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #21 on the map

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Attacking Units Yiftach Brigade
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains Kharruba was completely destroyed soon after occupation, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing Kharruba inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 3,373
Jewish 0
Public 1
**Total 3,374
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 25
Planted W/ Cereal 1,620
Built up 3
Arable 1,645
Non-Arable 1,726
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1931 119
1945 170
1948 197
Est. Refugees 1998 1,211
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 21
1948 34
Near By Townswhat's new
Jimzu
          ↖
al-Midya
↗        
al-Ramla  ←
Kharruba
→   Barfiliya
            ↙
'Innaba
↓
al-Kunayyisa
↘           
Bayt Shanna
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 No Israeli settlements on village lands.

Village Before Nakba

The village was situated in a flat area on the central coastal plain, less than 4 km northeast of the Ramla-Jerusalem highway. Paths linked it to neighboring villages, especially 'Innaba, from which secondary roads led to Ramla, either directly or via the Ramla-Jerusalem highway. Some of the village lands were covered by forests, comprised mainly of oak and carob (kharrub in Arabic) trees. (The village name was probably a reference to the carob trees.) The French traveler Guérin, who visited Palestine several times in the mid-nineteenth century, described Kharruba as a hamlet , and it was later classified as a hamlet by the Mandate-era Palestine Index Gazetteer. Its adobe houses, closely packed together in no particular pattern, were separated by narrow alleys. Its population was predominantly Muslim. The residents purchased basic staples from the marketplaces of surrounding villages, where they also sold their goods. Kharruba's economy expanded toward the end of the Mandate and house-building increased. The villagers cultivated grain, vegetables, and fruits. Fruit groves were concentrated along the northeast and southwest sides of the village. In 1944/45 a total of 1,629 dunums was allocated to cereals; 25 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The Israeli army's Yiftach Brigade reported on 10 July 1948 that its units had occupied Kharruba, blowing up houses and 'cleaning up' the village in the process. The next day the Yiftach units received orders 'to dig in in every place captured and to destroy every house not intended for occupation [by Israeli troops].' Israeli historian Benny Morris relates that these tasks were carried out as part of Operation Dani (see Abu al-Fadl, Ramla sub-disctrict), in which a force of almost four brigades moved to encircle and occupy the towns of Lydda and Ramla and their surrounding villages.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands.

Village Today

The site is covered with the stone rubble of the destroyed houses, overgrown with vegetation. Many of the plants that grow on the site are ones that Palestinians traditionally planted near their homes: cactuses, castor oil (ricinus) plants, and cypress, Christ's-thorn, and olive trees. The surrounding land is used by Israelis as a grazing ground.

Source

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