Innaba

Innaba
Innaba
Arabic	عنابة
Name meaning	Jujube[1]
Subdistrict	Ramle
Coordinates	31°54′07.55″N 34°56′51.40″E / 31.9020972°N 34.9476111°ECoordinates: 31°54′07.55″N 34°56′51.40″E / 31.9020972°N 34.9476111°E
Palestine grid	145/145
Population	1,420 (1945)
Date of depopulation	July 10, 1948[2]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current localities	Kefar Shemu'el

Innaba (Arabic: عنابة‎‎) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 10, 1948 by the Yiftach and Eighth Brigades of Operation Dani. It was located 7 km east of Ramla.

According to a census conducted in 1931 by the British Mandate authorities, Innaba had a population of 1135 inhabitants, in 288 houses.^[3] In 1945, it had population of 1,420. The Romans referred to the village as "Betoannaba". An elementary school for boys was founded in 1920 and in 1945, it had an enrollment of 168 students. Innaba also had a mosque, which was dedicated to al-Shaykh 'Abd Allah and had a shrine for him.

References

1. Palmer, 1881, p. 284
2. Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #244. Also gives cause of depopulation
3. Mills, 1932, p. 20

Bibliography

• Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
• Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (SWP III, p. 14)
• Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. (p. 837)
• Guérin, Victor (1868). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 1: Judee, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (pp. 314-317)
• Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
• Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2. (p. 155)
• Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
• Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
• Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
• Mukaddasi (1886). Description of Syria, including Palestine. London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society. (p. 33)
• Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.

External links

• Welcome To 'Innaba
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 17: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• 'Innaba from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center