Arab al-Bawati | |
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Arabic | عرب البواطي/خربة الحكمة |
Subdistrict | Baysan |
Coordinates | 32°31′40.94″N 35°32′21.27″E / 32.5280389°N 35.5392417°ECoordinates: 32°31′40.94″N 35°32′21.27″E / 32.5280389°N 35.5392417°E |
Palestine grid | 200/214 |
Population | 520 (1945) |
Area | 10,641 dunams |
Date of depopulation | 16 or 20 May 1948[1] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
Arab al-Bawati (Arabic: عرب البواطي/خربة الحكمة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
It was located 4 kilometres north east of Baysan in the Baysan valley. The village was destroyed on May 16, 1948. According to a Palestinian historian, Walid Khalidi, "All of the village houses have been demolished. The remains of basalt stone walls and the square and circular foundations of buildings can be seen among the weeds." Today the ruins of walls, pillars, the foundations of buildings, and Roman milestones are visible in the area.[2]
References
Bibliography
- Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center
- Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.