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al-Faluja
الفالوجة
al-Faluga

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Feb-March 1949[3]

38,038[2] dunams (38.0 km2 or 14.7 sq mi)

4,670[1][2]

Expulsion by Yishuv forces

The village and the neighbouring village of Iraq al-Manshiyya formed part of the Faluja pocket, where 4,000 Egyptian troops, who had entered the area as a result of the 1948 war, were besieged for four months by the newly established Israel Defense Forces.


The 1949 Armistice Agreements allowed for a peaceful transfer of those areas outside Gaza to Israeli control, allowing Egyptian troops to remain in Gaza.[6] Following the agreements, the Arab residents were harassed and abandoned the villages. The Israeli town of Kiryat Gat, as well as the moshav Revaha, border the site of the former town.

Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel

Operation Yoav

Welcome To al-Faluja

Zochrot

al-Faluja

Survey of Western Palestine, Map 20: , Wikimedia commons

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by Rami Nashashibi (1996), Center for Research and Documentation of Palestinian Society.

Al-Faluja