Ni'ilya

Ni'ilya
نعليا
Etymology: from personal name, meaning either "in the form of a horse-shoe" or from a word meaning "sterile, hard, ground"[1]
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Ni'ilya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Ni'ilya
Ni'ilya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°38′46″N 34°34′18″E / 31.64611°N 34.57167°E / 31.64611; 34.57167
Palestine grid109/117
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictGaza
Date of depopulationNovember 4–5, 1948[4]
Area
 • Total5,233 dunams (5.233 km2 or 2.020 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total1,310[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesAshkelon[5]

Ni'ilya was a Palestinian village in the Gaza Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on November 4, 1948, under Operation Yo'av. It was located 19 km northeast of Gaza in the city territory of modern Ashkelon. The village was defended by the Egyptian Army.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 376
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 32
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 46
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, village p. xix, No. 309, Also gives the cause for depopulation
  5. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 129

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