Al-Mukhayzin was a

Palestinian Arab Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

village in the Ramle Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948, by the Givati Brigade of Operation Har'el. It was located 10 km southwest of

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History

In 1838, ''el-Mukhaizin'' was noted as a Muslim village in the Gaza district.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p
118
/ref> In 1882, the PEF's ''

Survey of Western Palestine The PEF Survey of Palestine was a series of surveys carried out by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) between 1872 and 1877 for the Survey of Western Palestine and in 1880 for the Survey of Eastern Palestine. The survey was carried out after the ...

'' noted at Khurbet el Mukheizin: "A large

well A well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water. The oldest and most common kind of well is a water well, to access groundwater in underground aquifers. The ...

and '' birkeh'' (=artificial pool), of masonry. Several ruined cisterns and a few scattered stones."

British Mandate era

In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, El Mukheizin had 79 Muslim inhabitants, in a total of 19 houses.Mills, 1932, p
21
/ref> In 1944, Chafetz Chayyim was built on what traditionally was village land. In 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 200 Muslims and 110 Jews, with a land area of 10,942

dunums A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...

. Of this, Arabs used 10,936 dunums for cereals, while 6 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas. el Mkheizin 1930

1948, aftermath

Al-Mukhayzin became depopulated after a military assault on April 20, 1948. Afterwards,

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and Beyt Chilqiyya have all been built on village land. In 1992 the village site was described: "The village has been completely leveled so that only flat, cultivated fields can be seen. There is a mound of stone and debris, about 2.5 m high, at the southern edge of the site. An orange grove has been planted next the mound, also at the southern edge."Khalidi, 1992, pp. 398-399

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British Mandate era

1948, aftermath

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