Arabic خربة العمور Date of depopulation 21 October 1948 | Name meaning from Amorite Palestine grid 159/133 | |
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Cause(s) of depopulation Military assault by Yishuv forces | ||
A visit to khirbat al umur
Khirbat al-'Umur was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine war by the Har'el Brigade of Operation ha-Har. It was located 12 km west of Jerusalem on the Wadi al-Ghadir.
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History
An Ottoman village list from about 1870 showed that chirbet el-'amur had a population of 69, with a total of 13 houses, though the population count included men, only. It also noted that it was located south of Abu Ghosh, and east of Saris.
In 1883, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described El Ammur as "A small hamlet on the slope above a deep valley. There is a fine perennial spring below on the south ('Ain Mahtush). There are olives beneath the village."
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kherbet al-'Amur had a population of 137 Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 187 Muslims, in 45 houses.
In 1945, the village had a population of 270 Muslims, while the total land area was 4,163 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 497 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,279 for cereals, while 10 dunams were classified as built-up areas.