Ras Abu 'Ammar

Ras Abu 'Ammar
رأس أبو عمار
Ras Abu 'Ammar 1948
Ras Abu 'Ammar 1948
Etymology: The hill top of Abu Ammar[1]
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Ras Abu 'Ammar is located in Mandatory Palestine
Ras Abu 'Ammar
Ras Abu 'Ammar
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°44′17″N 35°05′33″E / 31.73806°N 35.09250°E / 31.73806; 35.09250
Palestine grid158/127
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJerusalem
Date of depopulationOctober 21, 1948[4]
Area
 • Total8,342 dunams (8.342 km2 or 3.221 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total620[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesTzur Hadassah[5]

Ras Abu 'Ammar (Arabic: رأس أبو عمار) was a small Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 21, 1948, by the Har'el Brigade of Operation ha-Har. It was located 14 km west of Jerusalem, surrounded on three sides by the Wadi al-Sarar.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, pp. 324, 268
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 25
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 58
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, village #347. Also gives cause of depopulation
  5. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 312