Al-Mukhayzin

Al-Mukhayzin
المخيزن
Etymology: Kh. el Mukheizin, the ruin of the storehouses[1]
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Al-Mukhayzin is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Mukhayzin
Al-Mukhayzin
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°48′12″N 34°48′40″E / 31.80333°N 34.81111°E / 31.80333; 34.81111
Palestine grid132/134
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictRamle
Date of depopulationApril 20, 1948[4]
Area
 • Total10,942 dunams (10.942 km2 or 4.225 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total310[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesChafetz Chayyim,[5] Revadim,[5] Yad Binyamin,[5] Beyt Chilqiyya[5]

Al-Mukhayzin was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948, by the Givati Brigade of Operation Har'el. It was located 10 km southwest of Ramla.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 270
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 67
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #263. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  5. ^ a b c d Khalidi, 1992, p. 398

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