Al-Khayma

Al-Khayma
الخيمة
Village
Etymology: The Tent[1]
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Al-Khayma is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Khayma
Al-Khayma
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°45′44″N 34°49′47″E / 31.76222°N 34.82972°E / 31.76222; 34.82972
Palestine grid133/130
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictRamle
Date of depopulationNot known[4]
Area
[3]
 • Total5,150 dunams (5.15 km2 or 1.99 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total190[2][3]

Al-Khayma (Arabic: الخيمة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 9, 1948, by the Givati Brigade of Operation An-Far. It was located 18.5 km south of Ramla.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 268
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 67
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #267. Morris gives both cause and date of depopulation as "Not known".