Palestine grid 157/131 Date of depopulation 21 October 1948 | ||
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Cause(s) of depopulation Military assault by Yishuv forces | ||
Bayt Umm al-Mays was a small Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 21, 1948 by the Har'el Brigade of Operation ha-Har. It was located 14 km west of Jerusalem.
In 1945, the village had a population of 70 Muslims.
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