Daniyal

Daniyal
Daniyal
Arabic	دانيال
Name Meaning	Daniel
District	Ramla
Coordinates	31°55′51.75″N 34°55′45.00″E / 31.9310417°N 34.92917°E / 31.9310417; 34.92917Coordinates: 31°55′51.75″N 34°55′45.00″E / 31.9310417°N 34.92917°E / 31.9310417; 34.92917
Population	410 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	July 10, 1948[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current localities	Kfar Daniel

For other uses, see Daniyal (disambiguation).

Daniyal (Arabic: دانيال‎) 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 Brigade under the first phase of Operation Dani. It was located 5 km east of Ramla and south-east of Lydda.

In 1945 it had a population of 410. An elementary school for boys which is still standing today was founded in 1945, and had an enrollment of 55 students. A shrine for al-Nabi Daniyal is also still intact.

Depopulated villages in the District of Ramla

References

1. ^ Morris, 2004, p xix village #232. 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.