Burayka was a Palestinian

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village in the

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. It was depopulated during the

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on May 5, 1948. It was located 29 km south of

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History

The Crusaders called the place for ''Broiquet''.Khalidi, 1992, p. 155 In 1265, Burayka was among the villages and estates sultan

Baibars Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari ( ar, الملك الظاهر ركن الدين بيبرس البندقداري, ''al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Rukn al-Dīn Baybars al-Bunduqdārī'') (1223/1228 – 1 July 1277), of Turkic Kipchak ...

allocated to his amirs after he had expelled the Crusaders. Half of the income from Burayka went to his emir ''Jamal al-Din Musa b. Yaghmur'', the other half to emir Alam al-Din Sanjar al-Hilli al-Ghazzawi''.

Ottoman era

In 1882, the PEF's '' Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it as "a small village on a hill-top, with a well to the north, and wooded country round." A population list from about 1887 showed that ''Bureikeh'' had about 115 inhabitants, all Muslim. A school, founded in 1889 during the Ottoman period, was located in the village, but was closed during the British Mandate period.

British Mandate era

In the

1922 census of Palestine The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922. The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divisi ...

, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ''Ibraikeh'' had a population of 249, all

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s,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Haifa, p
34
/ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 237, still all Muslims, in 45 houses.Mills, 1932, p
89
/ref> In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 290 Muslims, and Arabs had a total of 1,864

dunam 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 ...

s of land according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 78 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 1,538 for cereals, while 15 dunams were built-up (urban) land. Bureka 1942

1948, aftermath

Initially, the villagers did not want to take part in the war, and they opposed garrisoning

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militiamen in their village. According to

Yishuv Yishuv ( he, ישוב, literally "settlement"), Ha-Yishuv ( he, הישוב, ''the Yishuv''), or Ha-Yishuv Ha-Ivri ( he, הישוב העברי, ''the Hebrew Yishuv''), is the body of Jewish residents in the Land of Israel (corresponding to the s ...

sources, the AHC had in early March, 1948, ordered the villagers to evacuate, so that it could serve as a base for Arab irregular forces, However, most of the villagers seems to have stayed in the village at this stage. The village was finally depopulated in early May, in the aftermath of the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek, when IZL attacked the remaining villages in the area with mortar fire. Today, a civilian explosives factory is located on the site.

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