Al-Khayma
الخيمة | |
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Village | |
Etymology: The Tent [1] | |
Location within
Mandatory Palestine | |
Coordinates: 31°45′44″N 34°49′47″E / 31.76222°N 34.82972°E | |
Palestine grid | 133/130 |
Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
Subdistrict | Ramle |
Date of depopulation | Not known [4] |
Area | |
• Total | 5,150 dunams (5.15 km2 or 1.99 sq mi) |
Population (1945) | |
• Total | 190 [2] [3] |
Al-Khayma ( Arabic: الخيمة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 9, 1948, by the Givati Brigade of Operation An-Far. It was located 18.5 km south of Ramla.
In 1863, Victor Guérin found that it had two hundred and fifty inhabitants. [5]
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine noted it as principally an adobe village of "on low ground", and with a well to the east. [6]
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Khaimeh had a population of 132 Muslims, [7] increasing in the 1931 census to 141 Muslims, in 30 houses. [8]
In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 190, all Muslim, [2] and the total land area was 5,150 dunums. [3] Of this, 4 dunams were irrigated or used for plantations, 5,007 were used for cereals, [9] while 9 dunams were classified as built-up urban areas. [10]
Morris list both date and reason for depopulation as "not known". [4] However, he also notes it in connection with Operation An-Far, in mid July 1948. [11] [12]
Following the 1948 war, the area was incorporated into the State of Israel and in August 1948 al-Khaymas was one of 21 Palestinian villages whose land was proposed for resettlement with an Israeli village named Revadim. [13] In November, 1948, the proposal to establish Revadim on al-Khayma's land was passed. [14]
Revadim was eventually established close to village land, according to Morris, [15] however, according to Khalidi, Revadim is located north of al-Khayma, on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Mukhayzin. [16]
In 1992 the village site was described: "All that remains of the village are three mounds to the east, west, and south of the site that contain the remnants of houses. A girder protrudes from the eastern mound and there is a large, deserted well at the mounds centre. A large artificial pond lies about 100 m northeast of the site, and there is a monument next to a well about 0.5 km to the north. An inscription on the monument reads: To the eMemory of the Members of Kibbutz Revadim, who Settled on the Land in 1948." [17]
Al-Khayma
الخيمة | |
---|---|
Village | |
Etymology: The Tent [1] | |
Location within
Mandatory Palestine | |
Coordinates: 31°45′44″N 34°49′47″E / 31.76222°N 34.82972°E | |
Palestine grid | 133/130 |
Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
Subdistrict | Ramle |
Date of depopulation | Not known [4] |
Area | |
• Total | 5,150 dunams (5.15 km2 or 1.99 sq mi) |
Population (1945) | |
• Total | 190 [2] [3] |
Al-Khayma ( Arabic: الخيمة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 9, 1948, by the Givati Brigade of Operation An-Far. It was located 18.5 km south of Ramla.
In 1863, Victor Guérin found that it had two hundred and fifty inhabitants. [5]
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine noted it as principally an adobe village of "on low ground", and with a well to the east. [6]
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Khaimeh had a population of 132 Muslims, [7] increasing in the 1931 census to 141 Muslims, in 30 houses. [8]
In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 190, all Muslim, [2] and the total land area was 5,150 dunums. [3] Of this, 4 dunams were irrigated or used for plantations, 5,007 were used for cereals, [9] while 9 dunams were classified as built-up urban areas. [10]
Morris list both date and reason for depopulation as "not known". [4] However, he also notes it in connection with Operation An-Far, in mid July 1948. [11] [12]
Following the 1948 war, the area was incorporated into the State of Israel and in August 1948 al-Khaymas was one of 21 Palestinian villages whose land was proposed for resettlement with an Israeli village named Revadim. [13] In November, 1948, the proposal to establish Revadim on al-Khayma's land was passed. [14]
Revadim was eventually established close to village land, according to Morris, [15] however, according to Khalidi, Revadim is located north of al-Khayma, on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Mukhayzin. [16]
In 1992 the village site was described: "All that remains of the village are three mounds to the east, west, and south of the site that contain the remnants of houses. A girder protrudes from the eastern mound and there is a large, deserted well at the mounds centre. A large artificial pond lies about 100 m northeast of the site, and there is a monument next to a well about 0.5 km to the north. An inscription on the monument reads: To the eMemory of the Members of Kibbutz Revadim, who Settled on the Land in 1948." [17]