Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri was a

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village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on 10 April 1948. It was located 40 km south of

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History

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, ''Al Damaireh'' had a population of 227 Muslims. The population in the 1945 statistics was 620, all Muslims, with a total of 1,387

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s of land according to an official land and population survey. Of this, Arabs used 263 dunams for cereals, while a total of 512 dunams were non-cultivable land. On 6 April 1948, the

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implemented a new policy for the coastal plains, namely of clearing the whole area of its Arab inhabitants. On 10 April the villagers of Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri, together with the villagers of Arab al-Fuqara and Arab al-Nufay'at, were ordered to leave the area.Morris, 2004, p.
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'Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri
from Zochrot *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 7:
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from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center Arab villages depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War District of Haifa {{Palestine-geo-stub