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Al-Barriyya was a
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village in the Ramle Subdistrict of
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. It was depopulated during the
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on July 10, 1948, as part of Operation Dani. It was located 5.5 km southeast of
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, on the eastern bank of Wadi al-Barriyya. The area of the destroyed village has been overbuilt by Beit Hashmonai.


History

The ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) noted in 1882 that: "The name Barriyeh, 'Desert,' applied to a village, is explained by the inhabitants to be due to their ancestors having about 50 years ago lived in Abu Shusheh, whence they were expelled by the other villagers, and had to settle in the 'Desert,' or 'Outer Part.' They own most of the gardens of Abu Shusheh at the present day. This information is obtained from Mr. Bergheim." While the name is recorded already in the 16th century, the literal etymology of "desert, outer part' is confirmed by modern
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. In 1860, Saintine described it as a "modern village", without any antiquities. In 1863
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noted that the village was situated on a low eminence, and "the few houses which compose it consist of roughly constructed huts." An official Ottoman village list of about 1870 showed that it had a total of 20 houses and a population of 72, though the population count included men, only. In 1882, PEF's '' Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described as a small
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, surrounded by cultivated land.


British Mandate era

After the end of
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, the Ottoman Empire was partitioned and a Palestine mandate was accorded to
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by the
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. In the
1922 census of Palestine The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922. The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divis ...
conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Bariyeh had a population of 295 residents; all
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s,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p
21
/ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 388, still all Muslims, in a total of 86 houses.Mills, 1932, p
18
/ref> In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 510 Muslims with total of 2,831 dunums of land. Of this, 51 dunums of land were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,627 dunums were used for cereals, while 55 dunams were classified as built-up public areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p
164
/ref> File:Innaba 1942.jpg, Al-Barriya 1942 Survey of Palestine 1:20,000 File:Al-Barriyya 1945.jpg, Al-Barriyya. Survey of Palestine. 1945. Scale 1:250,000 File:Lydda and Ramla area - 9 July 1948.PNG, Palestinian villages depopulated in the area around Lydda and Ramla (coloured in green)


1948, aftermath

The village was depopulated on July 10–13, 1948, after military assault by
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i forces, as part of Operation Dani. The Israeli settlements of Azarya and Beyt Chashmonay was constructed on village land. In 1992 the village site was described: "The village site is mostly cleared and has been leveled except for one remaining stone house and fragments of the walls of two concrete houses with steel bars protruding from them".


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Welcome To al-Barriyya Barriyya
from the Zochrot *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 16:
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from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center {{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War District of Ramla