Arabic خربة إسم الله Palestine grid 145/132 Current localities Kefar Uriyya Date of depopulation 17 July 1948 | Subdistrict Jerusalem Area 568 dunams Current locality Kfar Uria | |
Khirbat Ism Allah was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the Jerusalem Subdistrict, located 26 km west of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 17, 1948 by the Harel Brigade of Operation Dani. Khirbat Ism Allah was mostly destroyed with the exception of several deserted houses.
History
According to a census conducted in 1931 by the British Mandate authorities, Khirbat Ism Allah had a population of 18 inhabitants, in 4 houses.
In 1945, Khirbat Ism Allah had a population of 20 Muslims, with a total of 568 dunums of land. Of this, 3 dunams were for irrigable land or plantations, 485 for cereals, while 80 dunams were non-cultivable land.
References
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