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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

April 20, 1948

Distance From District

10 (km) South of al-Ramla

Elevation

75 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #39 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Operation Barak (lightening)

Attacking Units

Either Giv'ati Brigade or Har' el Brigade

Exodus Cause

Military assault by Zionist troops

Village Temains

al-Mansura was completely obliterated.

Ethnically Cleansing

al-Mansura inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	2,123
Jewish	102
Public	103
**Total	2,328

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Planted W/ Cereal	2,177	102
Built up	3	0
Arable	2,177	102
Non-Arable	46	0

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1922	31
1931	61
1945	90
1948	104
Est. Refugees 1998	641

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	14
1948	23

Near By Towns

	al-Na'ani ↑ (N)	Abu Shusha ↗
'Aqir ←	al-Mansura	→ Saydun
↙ Shahma		↘ Umm Kalkha

Schools

al-Mansura's students used to attend school in al-Ramla city and in the neighboring villages.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

No Israeli settlements on village lands.

Village Before Nakba

Village Before 1948

The village stood on a flat spot on the central coastal plain. A network of secondary roads intersected at al-Mansura, and one of them crossed through the village of 'Aqir and joined the highway leading to Ramla. The Jaffa-Jerusalem railway line ran 1 km east of it. Edward Robinson passed by the village in 1838; he described it as 'small.' In the late nineteenth century, al-Mansura was a moderate-sized village built of adobe brick. During the Mandate al-Mansura, classified as a hamlet by the Palestine Index Gazetteer, featured houses made either of adobe brick or cement that extended along the road to 'Aqir. Its entire population was Muslim, and the children attended school in Ramla and the neighboring villages.

The villagers' main source of income was rainfed agriculture. They cultivated principally grain, as well as vegetables and fruits. Citrus and olive groves were concentrated on the east and west sides of the village. In 1944/45 a total of 2,113 dunums was allocated to cereals.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Al-Mansura's location would place it naturally among the positions seized during Operation Barak (see al-Batani al-Gharbi, Gaza sub-district). However, Israeli historian Benny Morris indicates that it was attacked some time before this, on 20 April, at the same time as the nearby village of al-Mukhayzin. This suggests that it may have been captured in the course of one of the sub-operations (probably Operation Har' el) mounted in the Jerusalem corridor between mid-April and late June. Following on the heels of Operation Nachshon (see Bayt Naqquba, Jerusalem sub-district), these sub-operations were centered around the village of al-Latrun and aimed at securing control of the Jerusalem-Jaffa highway. AI-Mansura was almost certainly attacked by the Giv'ati Brigade, which acted in coordination with the Jerusalem-based Har' el Brigade during this period. But it may not have come under complete Israeli control until the subsequent operation.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land.

Village Today

The site is planted with sycamore trees and there are also cactuses growing on it. The surrounding land is cultivated by the settlers of Mazkeret Batya (134140); this settlement was founded in 1948 on land belonging to 'Aqir.

Source

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

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