Khirbat al-Duhayriyya (
Arabic: خربة الظهيرية) was a
Palestinian Arab village in the
Ramle Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the
1948 Arab-Israeli War
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on July 10, 1948, by the
Givati Brigade
The 84th "Givati" Brigade ( he, חֲטִיבַת גִּבְעָתִי, , "Hill Brigade" or "Highland Brigade") is an Israel Defense Forces infantry brigade. Until 2005, the Brigade used to be stationed within the Gaza Strip and primarily perf ...
under the first phase of
Operation Dani. It was located 6 km northeast of
Ramla.
History
In 1874
Clermont-Ganneau
Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau (19 February 1846 – 15 February 1923) was a noted French Orientalist and archaeologist.
Biography
Clermont-Ganneau was born in Paris, the son of Simon Ganneau, a sculptor and mystic who died in 1851 when Clermon ...
noted the site, called ''Kh. edh Dh'heiriyeh'', located about half an hour east of
Lydda.
In 1882, the
PEF's ''
Survey of Western Palestine'' found at ''Khurbet edh Dhaheriyeh'': "Foundations of buildings, apparently modern. Ruined ''kubbeh''."
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.
British Mandate era
At the time of the
1931 census, the village, called ''Ez Zuheiriya'', had 10 occupied houses and a population of 69 inhabitants, all
Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
s.
[Mills, 1932, p. /ia800304.us.archive.org/18/items/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas/PalestineCensus1931.pdf 24/ref>
In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 100 Muslims.][ The total land area was 1,341 ]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 this, a total of 1,224 dunums were used for cereals, 66 dunums were irrigated or used for plantations, while 351 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.][Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p]
165
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File:Beit Nabala 1945.jpg, Khirbat al-Duhayriyya 1945 1:250,000
1948, aftermath
Khirbat al-Duhayriyya was depopulated on July 10, 1948.[
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
The fig is the edible fruit of ''Ficus carica'', a species of small tree in the flowering plant family Moraceae. Native to the Mediterranean and western Asia, it has been cultivated since ancient times and is now widely grown throughout the world ...
, doum palm
''Hyphaene thebaica'', with common names doum palm (Ar: دوم) and gingerbread tree (also mistakenly doom palm), is a type of palm tree with edible oval fruit. It is a native to the Arabian Peninsula and also to the northern half and western pa ...
, and almond
The almond (''Prunus amygdalus'', syn. ''Prunus dulcis'') is a species of tree native to Iran and surrounding countries, including the Levant. The almond is also the name of the edible and widely cultivated seed of this tree. Within the genus ...
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."[Khalidi, 1992, p. 381]
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External links
Welcome To al-Duhayriyya, Khirbat Khirbat al-Duhayriyya
Zochrot
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 13
IAA
Wikimedia commons
{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War
Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
District of Ramla