Bayt 'Affa
بيت عفا | |
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| Etymology: The house of Affeh (or chaste)[1] | |
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  Bayt 'Affa Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°39′41″N 34°42′24″E / 31.66139°N 34.70667°E | |
| Palestine grid | 122/118 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Gaza |
| Date of depopulation | Not known[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5,808 dunams (5.808 km2 or 2.242 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 700[2][3] |
Bayt 'Affa was a Palestinian village in the Gaza Subdistrict. It was depopulated and destroyed during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. It was located 29 km (18 mi) northeast of Gaza and Wadi al-Rana ran east of the village.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 365
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 31 Archived 2020-04-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 45
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #303. Morris gives both cause and date for depopulation as "Not known"