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Khirbat al-'Umur

Khirbat al-'Umur
خربة العمور
chirbet el-'amur
To the left are the remains of the village (in the forest clearing on the spur), above the riverbed. Up the riverbed is the village spring and the villages of Ein Rafa and Ein Nakuba.
To the left are the remains of the village (in the forest clearing on the spur), above the riverbed. Up the riverbed is the village spring and the villages of Ein Rafa and Ein Nakuba.
Etymology: from Amorite[1]
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Khirbat al-'Umur (click the buttons)
Khirbat al-'Umur is located in Mandatory Palestine
Khirbat al-'Umur
Khirbat al-'Umur
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°47′37″N 35°05′56″E / 31.79361°N 35.09889°E / 31.79361; 35.09889
Palestine grid159/133
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJerusalem
Date of depopulationOctober 21, 1948[4]
Area
 • Total
4,163 dunams (4.163 km2 or 1.607 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
270[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesGiv'at Ye'arim[5]

Khirbat al-'Umur was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine war by the Har'el Brigade during Operation Ha-Har. It was 12 km west of Jerusalem on the Wadi al-Ghadir.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, pp. 283, 268
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 25
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 57
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, village #350. Also gives cause of depopulation, with a "(?)"
  5. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 321
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