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Arabic
  
شلتة

Palestine grid
  
152/147

Date of depopulation
  
July 15–16, 1948

Subdistrict
  
Ramle

Population
  
100 (1945)

Local time
  
Saturday 4:47 PM

Shilta

Name meaning
  
Shilta, from personal name

Weather
  
18°C, Wind W at 24 km/h, 59% Humidity

Shilta was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 18, 1948 by the First Battalion of the Yiftach Brigade in the Operation Dani. It was located 15 km east of Ramla.

History

According to a census conducted in 1931 by the British Mandate authorities, Shilta had a population of 22 inhabitants, in 7 houses.

In 1945, the village had a population of 100 Muslims.

References

Shilta Wikipedia