Al-Na'ani

Al-Na'ani
Al-Na'ani
Arabic
District	Ramla
Coordinates	31°52′19.8″N 34°52′23.7″E / 31.872167°N 34.87325°E / 31.872167; 34.87325Coordinates: 31°52′19.8″N 34°52′23.7″E / 31.872167°N 34.87325°E / 31.872167; 34.87325
Population	2060 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	May 14, 1948[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Fear of being caught up in the fighting
Current localities	Na'an, Ramot Me'ir

Al-Na'ani (also called Al-Ni'ana) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramle. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 14, 1948 by the Givati Brigade of Operation Barak. It was located 6 km south of Ramle.

In 1945 the village had a population of 2,060 (with 590 Jewish inhabitants of Kibbutz Na'an). The village had an elementary school for boys which was founded in 1923, and in 1947 it had an enrollment of 208 students.

References

1. ^ Morris, 2004, p xix village #247. 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 al-Na'ani
• al-Na'ani, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center