Khirbat al-Duhayriyya

Khirbat al-Duhayriyya
خربة الظهيرية
Village
Etymology: The ruin of the ridge[1]
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Khirbat al-Duhayriyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Khirbat al-Duhayriyya
Khirbat al-Duhayriyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°56′46″N 34°56′03″E / 31.94611°N 34.93417°E / 31.94611; 34.93417
Palestine grid144/150
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictRamle
Date of depopulationJuly 10, 1948[4]
Area
[3]
 • Total1,341 dunams (1.341 km2 or 331 acres)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total100[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces

Khirbat al-Duhayriyya (Arabic: خربة الظهيرية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948, by the Givati Brigade under the first phase of Operation Dani. It was located 6 km northeast of Ramla.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 215
  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 No. 229. Also gives cause of depopulation.