• Al-Burayj District of Jerusalem

Israeli occupation date: October 19^th-24^th, 1948.

It was mostly destroyed and defaced. Al-Burayj inhabitants were completely ethnically

cleansed. The name of Al-Burayj was derived from the Greek purgos meaning a tower.

The village had a mosque, an Orthodox monastery, several cisterns.

In 1945 there were 710 Muslims and 10 Christians.

The number of houses in 1931 were 132. Now you can see in the place of Al-Burayj a large

military base called Kanaf Stain.

Land Ownership

Before Occupation

Ethnic Group                      Land Ownership

Arab                                         18,856

Jewish                                          0

Public                                         124