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Khirbat al Buwayra

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Arabic
  
خربة البويرة

Palestine grid
  
151/142

Subdistrict
  
Ramle

Date of depopulation
  
15 July 1948

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.

In 1945, it had a population of 190 Muslims.

The center of the village contained many wells and the village has a khirba which contains the foundations of a rectangular building with cisterns. Today the village area is used as a military training ground by the Israeli Army.

References

Khirbat al-Buwayra Wikipedia