Hatta, Gaza

Hatta
Etymology: Hatteh[1]
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Hatta is located in Mandatory Palestine
Hatta
Hatta
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°39′06″N 34°44′28″E / 31.65167°N 34.74111°E / 31.65167; 34.74111
Palestine grid125/117
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictGaza
Date of depopulationJuly 17–18, 1948[4]
Area
 • Total5,305 dunams (5.305 km2 or 2.048 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total970[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesZavdiel,[5] Aluma[5]

Hatta (Arabic: حتا) was a Palestinian Arab village of 1,125 inhabitants that was depopulated after a July 17, 1948 assault by Israeli forces of the Givati Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[6][7] Following the war the area was incorporated into the State of Israel and Zavdiel and Aluma were established on the land that had belonged to Hatta.

  1. ^ personal name, according to Palmer, 1881, p. 367
  2. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 31
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 45
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix village No. 301 Also gives the cause for depopulation
  5. ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 101
  6. ^ "Welcome to Hatta". Palestine Remembered. Retrieved 2007-12-03.
  7. ^ Operation An-Far