Arabic خربة الدامون | Also spelled Khirbet al Damun Palestine grid 152/237 Date of depopulation 30 April 1948 | |
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Cause(s) of depopulation Fear of being caught up in the fighting | ||
Al-Dumun was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948. It was located 10.5 km southeast of Haifa.
History
A known cave is located in the area that was used as a sheep fold.
In 1945 the village had a population of 340 Muslims, and the total land area was 2,797 dunams. Of this, 5 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 280 were for plantations and irrigable land, 1,619 for cereals, while 893 dunams were non-cultivable land.
At the end of April, 1948, the villagers surrounded without a fight, and the village was garrisoned by the Haganah. The villagers were, at first, allowed to stay. Morris notes that part of the document stating this has been blacked out by the IDF censors, presumably, according to Morris, as the writer have suggested that the villagers were to be expelled.