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Israeli occupation date: 27th-28th of December
1948.
The village was
obliterated. It should be noted that Intel Corporation
(the semiconductor
giant) maintains &
operates one of its biggest manufacturing plants outside the US (FAB
18) on a looted
land. We demand restitution for the dispossessed Palestinian
refugees
who happens to be
just few miles to the East in the slums of the Gaza Strip. Such
right has
been granted to these
refugees base on United Nation resolution 194, which it clearly
stated that the
Palestinian refugees should have The Right Of Return, & the
right to be
compensated
for any lose of properties.
'Iraq al-Manshiyya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Please see the Stories
& Memories section for detail account of the village cleansing.
Land Ownership before Occupation
Arab 13, 838 dunums
Jewish 3,468 dunums
Public 595 dunums
Population before Occupation
1596
61
1931
1,347
1945
2,220 (2010 Arabs, 210 Jews)
The number of houses
in 1931 : 299.
'Iraq al-Manshiyya had
an elementary school for boys which was founded in 1934, and in
1945 it had an
enrollment of 201 students.
The village had two
mosques, one was old and the other was more recent which was
considered one of the
most handsome among village mosques; it contained
several rooms, a
portico, and a courtyard.
The village had a shrine
for al-Shaykh Abroad al-'Urayni
The village had three
wells , which supplied it with its water needs.
There is an Israeli
settlement named Qiryat Gat and Sde Moshe.
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