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Welcome To al-Na'ani - النعاني (א-נעאני)

District of al-Ramla
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Picture for al-Na'ani Village - Palestine: : Railway Station. Fall 2006. Photo: Annemarie Jacir
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 14, 1948
Distance From District 6 (km) South of al-Ramla
Elevation 75 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
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Pre-Nakba Aerial View
Map Location See location #33 on the map

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Military Operation First stage of Operation Barak (lightening)
Attacking Units Giv'ati Brigade
Acts of Terror Some of the villagers were taken as hostages by the Haganah to ensure that the village surrenders peacefully.
Exodus Cause Fear of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting
Village Temains al-Na'ani was mostly destroyed with the exception of the train station and couple of deserted houses (one of those houses belongs to Ahmad Jubayl).
Ethnically Cleansing On June 10th, 1948, al-Na'ani was completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 9,768
Jewish 5,832
Public 529
**Total 16,129
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 0 2,375
Irrigated & Plantation 335 663
Planted W/ Cereal 9,277 2,769
Built up 51 0
Arable 9,612 5,807
Non-Arable 634 25
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 1,004
1931 1,142
1945 2,060 (590 Jewish)
1948 1,705 (590 Jewish)
Est. Refugees 1998 10,472
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 300
1948 447
Near By Townswhat's new
Tall al-Batteikh
         
al-Ramla

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al-Barriyya
       
   Abu Shusha
           
'Aqir
           
Saydun
Town Lands' Demarcation Mapswhat's new
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Schools An elementary school for boys which was founded in 1923, and in 1947 it had an enrollment of 208 students.
Places of Warship Two mosques: the 1st was old, and the other was more recent.
Water Supply An old well located to the southwest which used to supply the village with its drinking water needs.
Archeological Sites al-Na'ani contains khirbat Tall Malat, which was identified with the Canaanite settlement of Gibbethon.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
That Usurped Village Lands
Na'an and Ramot Me'ir
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on flat ground on the central coastal plain and linked by a network of secondary roads to Ramla and surrounding villages. A train station on the Jaffa-Jerusalem railway line was next to the village. In the late nineteenth century, al-Na'ani was a small village built of adobe bricks and situated on low ground. Its houses were built very close together and its lands were surrounded by those of the villages of 'Aqir, al-Qubayba, and Zarnuqa. Its population consisted of 1,450 Muslims and 20 Christians. AI-Na'ani had two mosques, one of which was much older than the other, a modest marketplace, and an elementary school, established in 1923, that had an enrollment of about 208 students in 1947-48. An old well in the southwest quarter of the village supplied al-Na'ani with drinking water.

Agriculture represented the chief occupation for the villagers, who cultivated grain, watermelons, and citrus. In 1944/45 a total of 9,277 dunums was allotted to cereals; 335 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. The village was built on an archaeological site identified as al-Khirba; fragments of ancient pottery and mosaics were found there. Tall Malat (137140), which has been identified with the Canaanite settlement of Gibbethon (1 Kings 15:27), lay about 1.5 km southeast of the village.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

On 14 May 1948, just before the end of the British Mandate, the Haganah's Giv'ati Brigade reached this village during the implementation of the first stage of Operation Barak (see al-Batani al-Gharbi, Gaza sub-district). According to Israeli historian Benny Morris, al-Na'ani was surrounded and given an ultimatum to hand over its arms, and hostages were taken from the village to ensure compliance. Finally, some arms were handed over, and the village was occupied. Morris does not provide a detailed description of how the village and its inhabitants were treated, but writes: 'Many villagers stayed on, apparently, until 10 June, when they were probably ordered to leave or intimidated into leaving.'

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Zionists established the settlement of Na'an (136143) in 1930; its buildings are now on village land. Ramot Me'ir (136142) was built on village land, west of the village site, in 1949.

Village Today

The site is overgrown with Christ's-thorn and eucalyptus trees and a variety of wild plants. The main landmark, the railway station, is now deserted. The railway line itself is used by Israel and now extends south to Bir al-Sabi'. Two deserted houses (including one belonging to Ahmad Jubayl) still remain, together with portions of houses utilized mainly for storing agricultural equipment. The land around the site is cultivated.

Source

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

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