Al-Lawz, Khirbat

Al-Lawz, Khirbat
Map of Khirbat Al-Lawz-area, 1870's
Arabic
Sub-district	Jerusalem
Population	450 (1945)
Area	4,502 dunams
Date of depopulation	July 13, 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation

Al-Lawz, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 13, 1948 by the Har'el Brigade of Operation Dani. It was located 11 km west of Jerusalem, situated north of Wadi al-Sarar.

In 1945, the village had a population of 450. Khirbat al-Lawz had a shrine dedicated to a local sage known as al-Shaykh Salama.

References

• 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 
• Morris, Benny (2004), The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6 
• Ze'evi, Dror (1996). An Ottoman century: the district of Jerusalem in the 1600s. SUNY Press. ISBN 0-7914-2915-6.  p.90

External links

• Welcome To al-Lawz, Khirbat
• Al-Lawz, Khirbat, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
• A Tour to Khirbet Alaluz By Umar Agbariya, 7.6.2008, Zochrot