Al-Barriyya

Al-Barriyya
البريّة
Etymology: The desert[1]
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Al-Barriyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Barriyya
Al-Barriyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°53′17″N 34°55′6″E / 31.88806°N 34.91833°E / 31.88806; 34.91833
Palestine grid142/144
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictRamle
Date of depopulationJuly 10–13, 1948[4]
Area
[3]
 • Total
2,831 dunams (2.831 km2 or 1.093 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
510[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesAzarya,[5][6] Beyt Chashmonay[6]

Al-Barriyya was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 10, 1948, as part of Operation Dani. It was located 5.5 km southeast of Ramla, on the eastern bank of Wadi al-Barriyya.

The area of the destroyed village has been overbuilt by Beit Hashmonai.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 265
  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. 66 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix village #245. Also gives cause of depopulation
  5. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxi, settlement #26.
  6. ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 362