al-Khisas
خربة الخِصاص Khirbat al-Khiṣāṣ | |
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Village | |
| Etymology: the ruin of booths or reed huts[1] | |
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  al-Khisas Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°38′53″N 34°33′40″E / 31.64806°N 34.56111°E | |
| Palestine grid | 108/117 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Gaza |
| Date of depopulation | November 4–5, 1948[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 6,269 dunams (6.269 km2 or 2.420 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 150[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Ashkelon[5] |
Al-Khisas (Arabic: خربة الخِصاص, Khirbat al-Khiṣāṣ) was a Bedouin[6] hamlet in Palestine, located 18.5 kilometers (11.5 mi) northeast of Gaza near the modern city of Ashkelon.[7]
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 361
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 32
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 46
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #308. Also gives the cause for depopulation
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Khalidi123was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ גרוסמן, דוד; Grossman, David (1987). "Rural Settlement in the Southern Coastal Plain and the Shefelah, 1835-1945 / היישוב הכפרי במישור-פלשת ובשפלה הנמוכה, 1835-1945". Cathedra: For the History of Eretz Israel and Its Yishuv / קתדרה: לתולדות ארץ ישראל ויישובה (45): 64. ISSN 0334-4657.
- ^ al-Khisas, Palestine Remembered, retrieved 2009-10-22