Umm Kalkha

Umm Kalkha was a small Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. According to a census conducted in 1931 by the British Mandate authorities, Umm Kalkha had 24 inhabitants, in 6 houses. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 7, 1948 during Operation Nachshon. It was located 12.5 km south of Ramla, situated on the northern banks of Wadi al-Sarar.

In 1945, it had a population of 60.

References

Bibliography

• Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 426)
• Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine. ( p. 30)
• 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. 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. 271)

External links

• Welcome To Umm Kalkha
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 16: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Umm Kalkha at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center