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It
was occupied 17th-18th of July 1948.
The
village has been mostly destroyed with the exception of two village
houses and the village cemetery.
Artuf inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed. The village
had one mosque called the al- Umari Mosque. Arabs owned 401 dunums.
The population on 1945 was 350.
According to the
Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining
structures on the village land are:
"One stone house, located outside the Jewish settlement of Nacham,
has been expanded, and is now inhabited by a Jewish family. In the
middle of the Jewish settlement is a small stone house that is used
as a warehouse; it stands by the site of the former mosque. On the
western slopes of the site is a circular structure with no roof that
was formerly used as a lime kiln (kabbara). The village cemetery, to
the west, has been levelled; only one or two graves remain on its
eastern edge. Part of the British police headquarters is still
standing."
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