Bil'in
بعلين | |
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Village | |
| Etymology: Balin, from personal name[1] | |
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  Bil'in Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°41′20″N 34°49′11″E / 31.68889°N 34.81972°E | |
| Palestine grid | 132/121 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Gaza |
| Date of depopulation | Not known[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8,036 dunams (8.036 km2 or 3.103 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 180[2][3] |
| Current Localities | Qedma[5] |
Bil'in was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 8, 1948, under Operation An-Far. It was located 39 km northeast of Gaza and the village contained two wells which supplied it with drinking water.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p.265
- ^ Government of Palestine,Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 31
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 45
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #290. Morris gives both cause and date for depopulation as "Not known"
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 91