Khirbat al-Buwayra 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

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on July 15, 1948, under the second phase of

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. It was located 15 km southeast of

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History

In the 1931 census ''El Buweiyiri'' had 101 Muslim inhabitants, in a total of 17 houses.Mills, 1932, p
19
/ref> In the 1945 statistics, it had a population of 190 Muslims and 1,150

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 land. Of this, 31 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, 316 dunums were used for cereals, while 803 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p
165
/ref> The center of the village contained many wells and the village has a khirba with the foundation of a building with cisterns. Today the village area is used as a military training ground by the

Israeli Army The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branc ...

.Khalidi, 1992, p. 372 File:Kh el Buweiniya 1944.jpg, Khirbat al-Buwayra from 1919 survey 1:20,000. File:Burj 1945.jpg, Khirbat al-Buwayra 1945 1:250,000 (bottom left quadrant)

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*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 17:
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