Welcome To Salbit - سلبيت (סלבית)

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Occupation Date

July 15, 1948

Distance From District

12 (km) Southeast of al-Ramla

Elevation

200 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #31 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Operation Dani

Attacking Units

Kiryati Brigade

Defenders

Jordanian Army & Local militia

Exodus Cause

Military assault by Zionist troops

Village Temains

Salbit was completely obliterated and defaced.

Ethnically Cleansing

Salbit inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	6,105
Jewish	0
Public	6
**Total	6,111

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	16
Planted W/ Cereal	4,066
Built up	31
Arable	4,082
Non-Arable	1,998

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1922	296
1931	406
1945	510
1948	592
Est. Refugees 1998	3,633

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

In (1931): 71 (listed in Jerusalem District, includes Bayt Shanna)

Near By Towns

al-Kunayyisa ↖	Bayt Shanna ↑ (N)	Bir Ma'in ↗
al-Qubab ←	Salbit	→ al-Buwayra, Khirbat
↙ al-Khalayil	↓ 'Imwas	↘ Yalu

Schools

An elementary school which was founded in 1947, and when it opened its doors it had an enrollment of 45 students.

Places of Warship

One mosque

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Kibbutz Sha'alvirn

Village Before Nakba

Salbit stood on a hill of soft limestone on the western edge of the Jerusalem-Hebron Mountains. Three km northwest of the village there was a secondary road which linked Salbit to the Ramla-Jerusalem highway. Dirt roads also connected it to adjacent villages. Its houses, made of mud and stone, were grouped around the village center, where the mosque, marketplace, and elementary school were located. The school, built in 1947, had an enrollment of forty-five students. All of the residents of Salbit were Muslims. The quality of the grass in the region enabled them to raise livestock; they also worked in agriculture, growing mainly rainfed grains. In 1944/45 a total of 4,066 dunums was allocated to cereals; 16 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. The village obtained its drinking water from a well.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Both the History of the War of Independence and Israeli historian Benny Morris report that the Israeli army broke through to Salbit on 15-16 July 1948. This took place in the course of Operation Dani (see Abu al-Fadl, Ramla sub-district), shortly after the occupation of Lydda and Ramla. After the residents of those towns were expelled, some Israeli units were given the task of pushing eastwards and seizing a number of villages from the Arab Legion, including Salbit. The Second Battalion of the Kiryati Brigade was charged with the occupation of Salbit, through which the Arab Legion's front lines ran. No details are given of what occurred at the village or of what happened to the villagers.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The kibbutz of Sha'alvim (148142) was established in 1951 on village lands.

Village Today

Nothing remains except some cactus plants and shrubs. The site is used for grazing cattle, and the surrounding lands are cultivated by Israelis.

Source

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

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