Daniyal

Daniyal
Pre-1948 structure from Daniyal, photo taken in 2014
Daniyal
Arabic	دانيال
Name meaning	Daniel
Subdistrict	Ramle
Coordinates	31°55′51.75″N 34°55′45.00″E / 31.9310417°N 34.9291667°ECoordinates: 31°55′51.75″N 34°55′45.00″E / 31.9310417°N 34.9291667°E
Palestine grid	143/148
Population	410 (1945)
Date of depopulation	July 10, 1948[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current localities	Kfar Daniel

Daniyal (Arabic: دانيال‎‎) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 10, 1948 by the Yiftach Brigade under the first phase of Operation Dani. It was located 5 km east of Ramla and southeast of Lydda.

In 1945, it had a population of 410. An elementary school for boys which is still standing today was founded in 1945, and had an enrollment of 55 students. A shrine for al-Nabi Daniyal is also still intact.

Depopulated villages in the Ramle Subdistrict.

References

1. Morris, 2004, p. xix village #232. Also gives cause of depopulation.

Bibliography

• Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.(p. 22)
• Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (pp. 252, 279)
• Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine. (p. 29)
• Guérin, Victor (1868). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 1: Judee, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (p. 335)
• Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
• Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
• Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
• Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
• Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 216)
• Robinson, Edward; Smith, Eli (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. (p. 56)

External links

• Welcome To Daniyal, Palestine Remembered
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 13: IAA, Wikimedia commons