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Al-Haditha

الحَدِيثَة

Ramle districtDepopulated 1948

Al-Haditha stood above the west bank of Wadi al-Natuf, a village of 760 with a mosque, a small market and a school founded in 1924. Israeli forces occupied it on 12 July 1948 during the first stage of Operation Dani; two months later its partial demolition went to a special ministerial committee for approval. Khalidi's 1992 site survey recorded rubble, the widened village road and one sealed house among olive and eucalyptus trees.