Al-Haditha, Ramle

Al-Haditha
الحديثة
Etymology: "new"[1]
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Al-Haditha is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Haditha
Al-Haditha
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°57′48″N 34°57′07″E / 31.96333°N 34.95194°E / 31.96333; 34.95194
Palestine grid145/152
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictRamle
Date of depopulationJuly 12, 1948[4]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total760[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesHadid[5][6]

Al-Haditha was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict. It was located 8 km northeast of Ramla, on the bank of Wadi al-Natuf. The site, now known as Tel Hadid, has yielded significant archaeological remains from many periods. Al-Haditha was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 12, 1948, under the first stage of Operation Dani.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 229
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 66 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #224. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  5. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxi, settlement #88. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  6. ^ Khalidi, 1991, p. 381

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