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Welcome To al-Muzayri'a - المزيرعة (אל-מזירעה)

District of al-Ramla
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Picture for al-Muzayri'a Village - Palestine: : The Roman mausoleum, before and after. One hundred years apart. The only difference was that al-Muzayri'a's indigenous population was cleansed!
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date July 12, 1948
Distance From District 15 (km) Northeast of al-Ramla
Elevation 110 (meters)
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Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
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Map Location See location #2 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Dani
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains al-Muzayri'a was completely defaced, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Muzayri'a inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 9,042
Jewish 1,450
Public 330
**Total 10,822
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 953 383
Irrigated & Plantation 35 10
Planted W/ Cereal 5,895 1,057
Built up 25 0
Arable 6,883 1,450
Non-Arable 2,464 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 39
1922 578
1931 780
1945 1,160
1948 1,346
Est. Refugees 1998 8,263
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 186
1948 320
Near By Townswhat's new
Fajja
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Majdal Yaba
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al-Zawiya
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Rantiya  ←
al-Muzayri'a
→   Dayr Ballut
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Wilhelma
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al-Tira
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Qibya
Schools An elementary school for boys which was founded in 1919, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of 207 students.
Inhabitants Place of Origin In the 18th century, the village was settled by the al-Rumayh family, originally from Dayr Ghassana, Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
Places of Warship A Roman mausoleum nearby the village (still standing) which was converted to a mosque dedicated to al-Nabi Yahya (John the Baptist who was born in 'Ayn Karim West of Jerusalem).
Archeological Sites In addition to the Roman mausoleum/mosque, al-Muzayri'a had Khirbat Zikhrin, a Roman-Byzantine site, which was inhabited during the Mamluk and Ottoman periods.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Nechalim and Mazor.
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a limestone hill at the end of the Ramallah heights overlooking the coastal plain. A wadi ran along its southern perimeter and separated it from the village of QuIa. AI-Muzayri'a was on the eastern side of the highway that ran from Ramla to Tel Aviv and Jaffa via Majdal Yaba. It was also about 1 km east of the al-RamIa-Haifa railway line. In 1596 al-Muzayri'a was a village in the nahiya of Jabal Qubal (liwa' of Nablus) with a population of thirty-nine. The village paid taxes on a number of crops including wheat, barley, and olives. It also paid taxes on goats and beehives. It seems that al-Muzayri'a was abandoned during the seventeenth century only to be reoccupied in the eighteenth century by the al-Rumayh family, originally from Deir Ghassaneh (now a village on the West Bank). A. Mansell, a journalist and traveler, mentioned passing al-Muzayri'a in the 1860s.

AI-Muzayri'a took on a star-like shape as its houses, mostly made of adobe, were built along the network of roads that connected it to other localities. Its population was predominantly Muslim, and a mosque was built at its center. A boys' school, founded in 1919, became a full-fledged elementary school in 1945. The school, which was attended by children from neighboring villages, had an enrollment of 207 students in the mid-1940s. A plot of 35 dunums was attached to the school. A school for girls was opened in 1945 and had an initial enrollment of 78 students. A Roman mausoleum near the village, still standing, was long ago converted into a mosque dedicated to a prophet, al-Nabi Yahya ('the Prophet John').

Early in this century, some of the residents engaged in the making of cloaks and horse saddles, but these crafts gradually died out. Agriculture remained the principal economic activity of the population, the main crops being rainfed grain and irrigated fruit from trees. In 1944/45 a total of 953 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 5,895 dunums were allotted to cereals; 35 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. In addition to the Roman mausoleum/mosque, there were a number of khirbas near the village. About 1 km northeast was Khirbat Zikhrin (146163), a Roman-Byzantine site that was inhabited during the Mamluk and Ottoman periods. Excavations there have been continuing since 1982.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

It is almost certain that al-Muzayri'a was occupied during Operation Dani (see Abu al-Fadl, Ramla sub-disctrict). Egyptian writer Muhmammad 'Abd al-Mun'im states that it was captured at a time when the operation was in progress, on 12 July, as Israeli forces launched a three-pronged attack on the town of Ramla. According to that account, the unit that attacked Ramla from the north occupied al-Muzayri'a and nearby QuIa before it reached Ramla. The History of the War of Independence states that a cluster of villages south of al-Muzayri'a (made up of QuIa, Rantiyya, and Wilhelma) was captured two days earlier, on 10 July.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Nechalim (141163) was founded in 1949 on the northwestern part of the village land. The settlement of Mazor (143162) was established in 1949 on the western side of the village lands.

Village Today

The site is largely forested. While a few houses remain, most have been reduced to rubble. Cactuses and stone terraces are visible on the site.

Source

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