Statistic/Fact	Value
Israeli occupation date	July 10, 1948
Distance from district center	12 (km) Northeast of al-Ramla
Elevation from the sea	75 (meters)
Map location	See location number #4 on the map
Israeli military operation	Operation Dani
Israeli attacking brigade	Alexandroni and Armored (Eighth) brigades
Defenders	Local militia & Arab Liberation Army
Exodus Cause	Military assault by Jewish troops
Village remains after destruction by Israelis	al-Tira was mostly destroyed with the exception of few houses survived destruction. Some of those houses are deserted and some are being used by Israeli Jewish settlers.
Ethnically cleansing by Israelis	al-Tira inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership before occupation	Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums) Arab 6,706 Jewish 0 Public 50 Total 6,956
Land usage in 1945	Land Usage Type Arab (Dunum) Irrigated & Plantation 78 Planted W/ Cereal 5,551 Built up 45 Cultivable 5,629 Non-Cultivable 1,282
Population before occupation	Year Population 1596 160 1922 705 1931 892 1945 1,290 1948 1,496 Est. Refugees 1998 9,190
Number of houses	Year Number of houses 1931 225 1948 377
Town's name through history	al-Tira was known to the Crusades by Thaeria.
Schools	An elementary school which was founded in 1922, and in 1947-48 school year it had an enrollment of 110 boys and 22 girls students.
Religious institutions	The village has an old mosque call al-'Umari mosque, and another newer mosque.
Water supplies	Drinking water was provided by a well on the West Side and from smaller private wells. Also water was collected in al-Waq' pool, which was used for irrigation.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands	Tirat Yehuda, Giv'at Koach, and Bareqet.
Related Maps	خرائط تفصيلية للمحافظة View from satellite Help us map this town at WikiMapia
More Information	Language External Links Arabic PalGates Hebrew Nakba in Hebrew   Nakba-Online

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Town Today

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, all that remains of the village:
"A number of stone houses survive, however; some are deserted, others are occupied by Israelis, and still others are used as stables for livestock. A deserted house, fenced in with barbed wire, has high, round-arched windows and a flat roof; the yard is overgrown with untended grass. One of the occupied houses is quite modest. It has a rectangular door and window and a flat roof; date-pabn and other trees grow on two sides. A second, larger, occupied house has two stories and a wide porch, and is also surrounded by trees. A third is also quite large and has two stories; a side stairway leads to a second-floor porch and there is a large, round arched entrance on the first floor. There are some destroyed houses inside the settlement of Bareqet."

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