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Welcome To Khulda - خلدة (ח'ולדה)

District of al-Ramla
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date April 6, 1948
Distance From District 12 (km) South of al-Ramla
Elevation 150 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #46 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Nachshon
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains On April 20th, 1948, Khulda was mostly bulldozed with the exception of two houses remain standing.
Ethnically Cleansing Early April 1948, Khulda inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 9,349
Jewish 0
Public 128
**Total 9,461
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 9
Planted W/ Cereal 8,994
Built up 8
Arable 9,003
Non-Arable 450
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 66
1922 53
1931 178
1945 280
1948 325
Est. Refugees 1998 1,995
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 29
1948 52
Near By Townswhat's new
al-Mansura
          ↖
Saydun
↑
(N)
al-Qubab
↗        
Umm Kalkha  ←
Khulda
→   Dayr Muhaysin
            ↙
Qazaza
↓
Sajad
↘           
Bayt Far, Khirbat
Town's Name Through History The Crusades referred to Khulda by Huldre.
Places of Warship One mosque
Water Supply Villagers drew water for domestic use from two wells located northeast of the village center.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Kibbutz Mishmar David and Tal shachar.

Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on a flat hilltop and overlooked wide areas on all four sides. Khulda lay close to a highway that connected Gaza with the Ramla-Jerusalem highway, and was linked by a network of secondary roads to Ramla and a number of major highways. It is identified with a locality that the Crusaders called Huldre. In 1596, Khulda was a village in the nahiya of Ramla (liwa' of Gaza) with a population of sixty-six. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat and barley, as well as on other types of produce, such as goats and beehives. Robinson passed by the village in 1838; he described it as 'large.' In the late nineteenth century, Khulda was described as a large village built of stone and mud and situated on the side of a hill. The village had a masonry well to the west. All of the people of Khulda were Muslims and maintained their own mosque. They drew water for domestic use from two wells, northeast of the village. They worked primarily in animal husbandry and rainfed agriculture, growing grain and small amounts of vegetables. In 1944/45 a total of 8,994 dunums was allotted to cereals; 9 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

On 3 April 1948, at the start of Operation Nachshon (see Bayt Naqquba, Jerusalem sub-district), a Haganah battalion occupied Khulda along with neighboring Dayr Muhaysin. Khulda was systematically levelled with bulldozers on 20 April, two weeks after its capture. The History of the Haganah says only that the village was taken 'without fighting.' Battles continued to rage around the village in later weeks, however, especially in the last week of May when an engagement around al-Latrun spread to the Khulda area, becoming what the press called 'the biggest Single clash of the war to date.'

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Kibbutz Mishmar David (140136) was established in 1948 about 0.5 km west of the site, on village lands. Tal Shachar (140134) is nearby, 2 km south of the site; it is not on village lands.

Village Today

Only two houses are left. Between them the walls of two destroyed houses still stand; the iron braces that formerly supported the roofs are still attached to the brickwork. Otherwise, the site is covered with wild vegetation. Eucalyptus forests and carob and cypress trees grow around the site (see photos).

Source

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