Nitaf

Nitaf

نطاف
Nataf^[1]
Nitaf نطاف Nataf
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Nitaf (click the buttons)
	Nitaf Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 31°50′13″N 35°03′55″E / 31.83694°N 35.06528°E
Palestine grid	156/138
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jerusalem
Date of depopulation	15 April 1948
Area
• Total	1,401 dunams (1.401 km2 or 346 acres)
Population (1945)
• Total	40

Nitaf (Arabic: نطاف, Natâf) was a small, short-lived Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. It was established in the early 20th century.^[4] It was forcefully depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 15, 1948, during the second stage of Operation Dani. It was located 17 km west of Jerusalem, just north of Bayt Thul.

The Israeli village of Nataf was built in 1982, south of the ruins of Nitaf.

^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 306.
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 25
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 57
^ Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 362

Nitaf نطاف Nataf^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Nitaf (click the buttons)
Nitaf Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°50′13″N 35°03′55″E / 31.83694°N 35.06528°E / 31.83694; 35.06528
Palestine grid	156/138
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jerusalem
Date of depopulation	15 April 1948
Area
• Total	1,401 dunams (1.401 km² or 346 acres)
Population (1945)^[2]^[3]
• Total	40