Khirbat al-Duhayriyya

Khirbat al-Duhayriyya

خربة الظهيرية
Khirbat al-Duhayriyya خربة الظهيرية
Village
	Etymology: The ruin of the ridge
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Khirbat al-Duhayriyya (click the buttons)
	Khirbat al-Duhayriyya Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 31°56′46″N 34°56′03″E / 31.94611°N 34.93417°E
Palestine grid	144/150
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Ramle
Date of depopulation	July 10, 1948
Area
• Total	1,341 dunams (1.341 km2 or 331 acres)
Population (1945)
• Total	100
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces

Khirbat al-Duhayriyya (Arabic: خربة الظهيرية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948, by the Givati Brigade under the first phase of Operation Dani. It was located 6 km northeast of Ramla.

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 215
^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29
^ ^a ^b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 67
^ Morris, 2004, p. xix village No. 229. Also gives cause of depopulation.

Khirbat al-Duhayriyya خربة الظهيرية
Village
Etymology: The ruin of the ridge^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Khirbat al-Duhayriyya (click the buttons)
Khirbat al-Duhayriyya Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°56′46″N 34°56′03″E / 31.94611°N 34.93417°E / 31.94611; 34.93417
Palestine grid	144/150
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Ramle
Date of depopulation	July 10, 1948^[4]
Area ^[3]
• Total	1,341 dunams (1.341 km² or 331 acres)
Population (1945)
• Total	100^[2]^[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces