The depopulated village of Khirbat Bayt Lid / District of Tulkarm
District of Tulkarm
Khirbat Bayt Lid
About the depopulated village of Khirbat Bayt Lid
- District
- Tulkarm
- Date Khirbat Bayt Lid was occupied
- 05 April 1948
- Population in 1948
- 534
- Military operation
- Coastal Clearing
- Brigade that carried it out
- Alexandroni Brigade
- Distance from the governorate centre
- 12 (km) West of Tulkarm
- Elevation above sea level
- 25 m
- Cause of displacement
- Fear of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting
- Extent of destruction
- Khirbat Beit Lid was completely destroyed and defaced.
- Ethnic cleansing
- Bayt Lid, Khirbat inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
- Settlements built on the built-up area of Khirbat Bayt Lid after 1948
- Ganot Hadar, Shikun Vatikim (Netanya)
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District: Tulkarm
Population 1948: 530
Occupation date: 01/04/1948
Jewish settlements on village/town land before 1948: None
Jewish settlements on village/town land after 1948: Ganot Hadar, Shikun Vatikim (Netanya)
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