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Welcome To al-Haditha - الحديثة (אל-חדית'ה)

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) Northeast of al-Ramla
Elevation 125 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #8 on the map

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Military Operation First stage of Operation Dani
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains On September 14th, 1948, al-Haditha was mostly destroyed with the exception of one house remain standing.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Haditha inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 6,544
Jewish 157
Public 409
**Total 7,110
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 10 0
Irrigated & Plantation 246 0
Olive Groves 200 0
Planted W/ Cereal 4,421 102
Built up 16 0
Arable 4,677 102
Non-Arable 2,260 55
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 415
1931 520
1945 760
1948 882
Est. Refugees 1998 5,414
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 119
1948 201
Near By Townswhat's new
Dayr Tarif
         
Bayt Nabala

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Qibya
       
al-Lydd  
   Budrus
           
al-Ramla
           
Ni'lin
Town's Name Through History In Biblical times, al-Haditha was referred to by Hadid, and during the Hellenistic it was known by 'Adida.
Schools An elementary school for boys which was founded in 1924, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of 42 students.
Nearby Wadies & Rivers al-Haditha is situated on the west bank of Wadi al-Natuf.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
Chadid
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on a hilly spot on the eastern edge of the central coastal plain, on the west bank of Wadi al-Natuf. It was 1 km east of a main road connecting Lydda, Bayt Nabala, and other villages farther north and was linked to it by a secondary road. Al-Haditha was also connected by secondary roads to a number of neighboring villages. It has been identified with the Biblical locality of Hadid (Ezra 2:33), where 720 Jewish exiles returning from Babylon were settled. The site may have been the Hellenistic 'Adida which was fortified by Simon Maccabeus (1 Maccabees 12:38). Architectural fragments in the village attest to its long history. The Byzantine historian Eusebius (A.D. 260-339), who was born in Palestine (Caesarea), wrote that the village was east of Lydda. In the nineteenth century the French traveller Guérin, who visited Palestine several times, wrote that al-Haditha stood on top of a hill and consisted of several houses.

Al-Haditha originally had a trapezoidal layout that became rectangular, toward the end of the Mandate, as the village expanded. Its houses were clustered around the center, which contained a mosque, a small marketplace, and an elementary school, founded in 1924, which had an enrollment of forty-two students in 1943. All of the people living in al-Haditha were Muslims. Their main economic activity was agriculture, and their most important crops were grain and olives. In 1944/45 a total of 10 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 4,419 dunums were allotted to cereals; 246 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which about 200 dunums were olive groves.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

AI-Haditha was occupied on 12 July 1948, while the occupation of Lydda and Ramla was in progress. This occurred in the first stage of Operation Dani (see Abu al-Fadl, Ramla sub-district). Two months after its occupation, on 14 September, Israeli prime minister Ben-Gurion consigned it to partial destruction 'because of a lack of manpower to occupy the area [in depth].' In accordance with a newly-instituted procedure, Ben-Gurion asked a special ministerial committee, formed to oversee the demolition of villages, to approve the destruction of al-Haditha.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Chadid (143152) was established in 1950 on village lands, 2 km northwest of the ruins of the destroyed village.

Village Today

The stone and concrete rubble of destroyed houses is visible on the site. Only one house remains; it is sealed and deserted. It has a gabled, tiled roof, and a sign ("BROADWAY 80") is glued to one of its walls. There are also clusters of trees on the site, including Christ's-thorn, olive, and eucalyptus trees. The old village road remains and has been enlarged. The surrounding land is cultivated.

Source

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

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