Al-Tina
التينة | |
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| Etymology: The fig tree[1] | |
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  Al-Tina Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°44′48″N 34°49′11″E / 31.74667°N 34.81972°E | |
| Palestine grid | 133/128 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Ramle |
| Date of depopulation | July 8–9, 1948[4] |
| Area | |
• Total | 7,001 dunams (7.001 km2 or 2.703 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 750[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Al-Tina, or Khirbet et-Tineh was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. The village was located between the Shfela and southern Israeli coastal plain. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 8, 1948, by the Givati Brigade under Operation An-Far. It was located 20. km south of Ramla. The hill on which the village was built stands today next to the Kiryat Mal'akhi – Yoav railway station and next to Highway 6. Archeological excavations at the site revealed the remains of a Byzantine settlement.[5]
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 275
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 68
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #269. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ Haddad, Elie (2020). "Kh. et-Tineh (Kefar Menahem): Final Report". Hadashot Arkheologiyot. 132.