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| Bayt 'Affa District of Gaza بيت عفا - בית עפא Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
January 10, 1948
Distance from district center
29 (km) North East of Gaza
Elevation from the sea
100 (meters)
Map location
See location number #22 on the map
Israeli military operation
Operation Barak (lightening)
Israeli attacking brigade
Giv'ati Brigade's Second Battalion
Village defenders
Egyptian and Sudanese soldiers
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisThe village was completely obliterated
Ethnically cleansing
by IsraelisBayt 'Affa inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
5,707
Jewish
0
Public
101
Total
5,808
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Irrigated & Plantation
14
Planted W/ Cereal
5,657
Built up
26
Cultivable
5,671
Non-Cultivable
111
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1596
143
1922
422
1931
462
1945
700
1948
812
Est. Refugees 1998
4,987
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
105
1948
184
Shrines/maqams
Bayt 'Affa had a shrine for the Arab prophet (al-Nabi) Salih.
Nearby wadies & rivers
Wadi al-Rana ran just East of the village.
Archeological sites
The village had a khirba which contained the remains of walls made of uncut stones, a well, and ancient columns.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Yad Natan
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"There are no traces of village houses; only sycamore and carob trees and cactuses mark the site. "
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