Khirbat al-Buwayra

Khirbat al-Buwayra was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 15, 1948 under the second phase of Operation Dani. It was located 15 km southeast of Ramla.

Khirbat al-Buwayra

خربة البويرة
Village
Etymology: the little pit[1]
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Khirbat al-Buwayra
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°52′27″N 35°00′52″E
Palestine grid151/142
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictRamle
Date of depopulationJuly 15, 1948
Population
 (1945)
 • Total190[2][3]

History

In the 1931 census El Buweiyiri had 101 Muslim inhabitants, in a total of 17 houses.[4]

In the 1945 statistics, it had a population of 190 Muslims[2] and 1,150 dunums of land.[3] Of this, 31 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, 316 dunums were used for cereals,[5] while 803 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.[6]

The center of the village contained many wells and the village has a khirba with the foundation of a building with cisterns. Today the village area is used as a military training ground by the Israeli Army.[7]

  • Khirbat al-Buwayra from 1919 survey 1:20,000.
  • Khirbat al-Buwayra 1945 1:250,000 (bottom left quadrant)

References
  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 292
  2. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29
  3. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 67
  4. Mills, 1932, p. 19
  5. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 115
  6. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 165
  7. Khalidi, 1992, p. 372

Bibliography
  • Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • Khalidi, W. (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, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
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