Al-Imara

al-Imara
al-Imara
Arabic العمارة
Name meaning "the Building"
Subdistrict Beersheba
Coordinates 31°18′11″N 34°31′14″E / 31.30306°N 34.52056°E / 31.30306; 34.52056Coordinates: 31°18′11″N 34°31′14″E / 31.30306°N 34.52056°E / 31.30306; 34.52056
Palestine grid 104/080
Date of depopulation October 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation Expulsion by Yishuv forces
Current localities Urim[1] Ofakim[2]

al-Imara (Arabic: العمارة‎), was a Palestinian village, located in the northern Naqab Desert 27 kilometers (17 mi) northwest of Beersheba.

History

In the British mandate period the village was classified as a hamlet by the Palestine Index Gazetteer.[3]

Post-1948

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the village was captured by the Yiftach Brigade in early October, meeting with no resistance. The Ofakim development town[2] and the Jewish kibbutz of Urim are built on the lands of the former village, with the latter being approximately 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) south of the original village site.[1]

The Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, described the village remains in 1992: "The village site has been completely built over by the kibbutz of Urim. Although the kibbutz was established in 1946 near the village of Al-Imara, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, it was moved to the site of the former British police station. About 2 km southeast of the current kibbutz there are remains of several stone structures. These were the houses that belonged to Bedouin families before 1948 and were not considered part of al-Imara.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Khalidi, 1992, p. 73
  2. 1 2 Davis, Uri (2008), In Search of the Abu Sitta Sword (PDF), p. 12, Archived from the original on 2010-11-01
  3. ↑ Khalidi, 1992, p.72

Bibliography

  • Khalidi, W. (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, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
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