Ni'ilya

Ni'ilya

نعليا
Ni'ilya نعليا
	Etymology: from personal name, meaning either "in the form of a horse-shoe" or from a word meaning "sterile, hard, ground"
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Ni'ilya (click the buttons)
	Ni'ilya Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 31°38′46″N 34°34′18″E / 31.64611°N 34.57167°E
Palestine grid	109/117
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Gaza
Date of depopulation	November 4–5, 1948
Area
• Total	5,233 dunams (5.233 km2 or 2.020 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	1,310
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Ashkelon

Ni'ilya was a Palestinian village in the Gaza Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on November 4, 1948, under Operation Yo'av. It was located 19 km northeast of Gaza in the city territory of modern Ashkelon. The village was defended by the Egyptian Army.

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 376
^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 32
^ ^a ^b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 46
^ Morris, 2004, village p. xix, No. 309, Also gives the cause for depopulation
^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 129

Ni'ilya نعليا
Etymology: from personal name, meaning either "in the form of a horse-shoe" or from a word meaning "sterile, hard, ground"^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Ni'ilya (click the buttons)
Ni'ilya Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°38′46″N 34°34′18″E / 31.64611°N 34.57167°E / 31.64611; 34.57167
Palestine grid	109/117
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Gaza
Date of depopulation	November 4–5, 1948^[4]
Area ^[3]
• Total	5,233 dunams (5.233 km² or 2.020 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	1,310^[2]^[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Ashkelon^[5]