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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

July 12, 1948

Distance From District

8 (km) Northeast of al-Ramla

Elevation

125 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #8 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

First stage of Operation Dani

Exodus Cause

Military assault by Zionist troops

Village Temains

On September 14th, 1948, al-Haditha was mostly destroyed with the exception of one house remain standing.

Ethnically Cleansing

al-Haditha inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	6,544
Jewish	157
Public	409
**Total	7,110

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves	10	0
Irrigated & Plantation	246	0
Olive Groves	200	0
Planted W/ Cereal	4,421	102
Built up	16	0
Arable	4,677	102
Non-Arable	2,260	55

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1922	415
1931	520
1945	760
1948	882
Est. Refugees 1998	5,414

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	119
1948	201

Near By Towns

Dayr Tarif ↖	Bayt Nabala ↑ (N)	Qibya ↗
al-Lydd ←	al-Haditha	→ Budrus
↙ al-Ramla	↓ Dayr Abu Salama	↘ Ni'lin

Town's Name Through History

In Biblical times, al-Haditha was referred to by Hadid, and during the Hellenistic it was known by 'Adida.

Schools

An elementary school for boys which was founded in 1924, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of 42 students.

Nearby Wadies & Rivers

al-Haditha is situated on the west bank of Wadi al-Natuf.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Chadid

Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on a hilly spot on the eastern edge of the central coastal plain, on the west bank of Wadi al-Natuf. It was 1 km east of a main road connecting Lydda, Bayt Nabala, and other villages farther north and was linked to it by a secondary road. Al-Haditha was also connected by secondary roads to a number of neighboring villages. It has been identified with the Biblical locality of Hadid (Ezra 2:33), where 720 Jewish exiles returning from Babylon were settled. The site may have been the Hellenistic 'Adida which was fortified by Simon Maccabeus (1 Maccabees 12:38). Architectural fragments in the village attest to its long history. The Byzantine historian Eusebius (A.D. 260-339), who was born in Palestine (Caesarea), wrote that the village was east of Lydda. In the nineteenth century the French traveller Guérin, who visited Palestine several times, wrote that al-Haditha stood on top of a hill and consisted of several houses.

Al-Haditha originally had a trapezoidal layout that became rectangular, toward the end of the Mandate, as the village expanded. Its houses were clustered around the center, which contained a mosque, a small marketplace, and an elementary school, founded in 1924, which had an enrollment of forty-two students in 1943. All of the people living in al-Haditha were Muslims. Their main economic activity was agriculture, and their most important crops were grain and olives. In 1944/45 a total of 10 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 4,419 dunums were allotted to cereals; 246 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which about 200 dunums were olive groves.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

AI-Haditha was occupied on 12 July 1948, while the occupation of Lydda and Ramla was in progress. This occurred in the first stage of Operation Dani (see Abu al-Fadl, Ramla sub-district). Two months after its occupation, on 14 September, Israeli prime minister Ben-Gurion consigned it to partial destruction 'because of a lack of manpower to occupy the area [in depth].' In accordance with a newly-instituted procedure, Ben-Gurion asked a special ministerial committee, formed to oversee the demolition of villages, to approve the destruction of al-Haditha.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Chadid (143152) was established in 1950 on village lands, 2 km northwest of the ruins of the destroyed village.

Village Today

The stone and concrete rubble of destroyed houses is visible on the site. Only one house remains; it is sealed and deserted. It has a gabled, tiled roof, and a sign ("BROADWAY 80") is glued to one of its walls. There are also clusters of trees on the site, including Christ's-thorn, olive, and eucalyptus trees. The old village road remains and has been enlarged. The surrounding land is cultivated.

Source

Dr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains.

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Display Name	Clan/Hamolah	Country of Residence
Abdallah Alasmar Wadiha	-	Palestine
يوسف العطشان	العطشان	عمان, الاردن
احمد جميل عوض الله	-	نعم
fathi	-	annam
rebhey gieth	غيث	عمان, الحديثة
رمزي شعبان محفوظ	محفوظ	الرياض, السعودية
ابومحمود الاسمر	الاسمر	alhaditha
عبدالعزيز علي مسلم عيد	عيد	Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia
Nijem Mahfoudh	Mahfoudh	Dhahran , Al Hadeetheh
مريم	غيث	فلسطين , رام لله - البيرة
akram-asmer	alasmer	amman
خالد الاسمر	اسمر	albirah, الحديثه
محمد حرب درويش مغامس	مغامس	-
محمود حسن ابراهيم خليل محفوظ - ابو حمزة	محفوظ	الاردن, الاردن
محمود غيث	غيث	رام الله , فلسطين
مهند محمد رشيد سعد	سعد	-
نضال الحديثي	مغامس	رام لله, الحديثة
صالح الاسمر	الاسمر	-
Marouf Mughames	-	California, USA

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