Bayt Mahsir
بيت محسير | |
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 Panorama from west, 2008 | |
| Etymology: The house of Mahsîr[1] | |
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  Bayt Mahsir Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°47′40″N 35°02′05″E / 31.79444°N 35.03472°E | |
| Palestine grid | 153/133 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Jerusalem |
| Date of depopulation | May 10–11, 1948[4] |
| Area | |
• Total | 16,268 dunams (16.268 km2 or 6.281 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 2,400[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Beit Meir,[5][6] Mesilat Zion[6] |
Bayt Mahsir (Arabic: بيت محسير) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 10, 1948, by the Harel Brigade of Operation Makkabi. It was located 9 km west of Jerusalem.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 286
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 24
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 56
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, village #336. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxi, settlement #28.
- ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 277.