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  Destroyed villages
  • Bi’lin District of Gaza

It was occupied on July 1948. The village was mostly destroyed with the exception of few houses remain standing.

Bi’lin inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Land                                Ethic Group              Land Ownership

Ownership                        Arab                             7,415

                                          Jewish                          294

                                          Public                           327

                                          Total                             8,036  

 

Bi’lin had an elementary school, which was founded in 1937. A shrine for al-Shaykh Ya’qub Bi’lin contained two well, which supplied it with its drinking water, needs.

Now an Israeli settlements is located there “Qedma”.

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi the village remaining structures on the village land are:

“All that remains is the rubble of a few houses, with wild herbs and thorns growing on the site, along with some trees and cactus plants.

 

 
   

 

 

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