Ghost Towns
💥 War & expulsion

Bil'in, Gaza

Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
127
Coordinates
31.689, 34.820
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Why it was abandoned

💥 War & expulsion

Detected automatically from the text: Palestinian village in Gaza subdistrict, depopulated in 1948

History

Bil'in was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 8, 1948, under Operation An-Far. It was located 39 km northeast of Gaza and the village contained two wells which supplied it with drinking water.

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