Khirbat al-Duhayriyya

(Redirected from Al-Duhayriyya, Khirbat)

Khirbat al-Duhayriyya (Arabic: خربة الظهيرية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948, by the Givati Brigade under the first phase of Operation Dani. It was located 6 km northeast of Ramla.

Khirbat al-Duhayriyya
خربة الظهيرية
Village
Etymology: The ruin of the ridge[1]
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Khirbat al-Duhayriyya (click the buttons)
Khirbat al-Duhayriyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Khirbat al-Duhayriyya
Khirbat al-Duhayriyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°56′46″N 34°56′03″E / 31.94611°N 34.93417°E / 31.94611; 34.93417
Palestine grid144/150
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictRamle
Date of depopulationJuly 10, 1948[4]
Area
 • Total1,341 dunams (1.341 km2 or 331 acres)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total100[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces

History

edit

In 1874 Clermont-Ganneau noted the site, called Kh. edh Dh'heiriyeh, located about half an hour east of Lydda.[5]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found at Khurbet edh Dhaheriyeh: "Foundations of buildings, apparently modern. Ruined kubbeh."[6]

By the beginning of the 20th century, residents from neighbouring Ni'lin settled the site, establishing it as a dependency – or satellite village – of their home village.[7]

British Mandate era

edit

At the time of the 1931 census, the village, called Ez Zuheiriya, had 10 occupied houses and a population of 69 inhabitants, all Muslims.[8]

In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 100 Muslims.[2] The total land area was 1,341 dunams,[3] of this, a total of 1,224 dunums were used for cereals, 66 dunums were irrigated or used for plantations,[9] while 351 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.[10]

1948, aftermath

edit

Khirbat al-Duhayriyya was depopulated on July 10, 1948.[4]

In 1992 the village site was described: "The walls of some ten houses still stand. Otherwise, the village has been reduces to piles of stone rubble interspersed with fig, doum palm, and almond trees, along with thickets of thorn and wild vegetation. The site is fenced in and serves as pasture for animals. Cactuses grow along the northern and southern sides of the site."[11]

References

edit
  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 215
  2. ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29
  3. ^ a b c Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 67
  4. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xix village No. 229. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  5. ^ Clermont-Ganneau, 1896, II, p. 99
  6. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 265
  7. ^ Marom, Roy (2022). "Lydda Sub-District: Lydda and its countryside during the Ottoman period". Diospolis – City of God: Journal of the History, Archaeology and Heritage of Lod. 8: 124.
  8. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 24
  9. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 115
  10. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 165
  11. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 381

Bibliography

edit
edit