Dayr Abu Salama
Dayr Abu Salama | |
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Dayr Abu Salama | |
Subdistrict | Ramle |
Coordinates | 31°56′56.8″N 34°57′25.3″E / 31.949111°N 34.957028°ECoordinates: 31°56′56.8″N 34°57′25.3″E / 31.949111°N 34.957028°E |
Palestine grid | 146/150 |
Population | 60 (1945) |
Date of depopulation | July 13, 1948[1] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Dayr Abu Salama was a small Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, located 8 km northeast of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 13, 1948 in the first phase of Operation Dani.
In 1945, it had a population of 60. A shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh Abu Salama is also located in the village.
References
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- 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.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
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