Innaba

Innaba
Innaba
Arabic	عنابة
Name Meaning	Jujube
District	Ramla
Coordinates	31°54′07.55″N 34°56′51.40″E / 31.9020972°N 34.947611°E / 31.9020972; 34.947611Coordinates: 31°54′07.55″N 34°56′51.40″E / 31.9020972°N 34.947611°E / 31.9020972; 34.947611
Population	1,420 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	July 10, 1948[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current localities	Kefar Shemu'el

Innaba (Arabic: عنابة‎) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948 by the Yiftach and Eighth brigades of Operation Dani. It was located 7 km east of Ramla.

In 1945 it had population of 1,420. The Romans referred to the village as "Betoannaba". An elementary school for boys was founded in 1920, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of 168 students. Innaba also had a mosque which was dedicated to al-Shaykh 'Abd Allah and a shrine to him.

References

1. ^ Morris, 2004, p xix village #244. Also gives cause of depopulation

Bibliography

• Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html 
• 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 9780521009676. http://books.google.com/?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=benny+morris&q. 

External links

• Welcome To 'Innaba
• 'Innaba from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center