Wadi Hunayn ( Arabic : وادي حنين ) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict , located 9 km west of Ramla . According to a local tradition, it was named after the Yemeni home of the Qada'a tribe who settled here in the early Islamic period.
7-548: In 1881, it was noted as being named Wady Hanein, meaning "The valley of Hanein" (or Honein); the word means the cry of a she-camel to her colt. At the time of the 1922 census of Palestine , Wadi Hunayn had a population of 195 inhabitants, all Muslims , which increased to 278 Muslims and 2 Christians, living in 55 houses, by the 1931 census . In the 1945 statistics , there were 1,620 Muslims and 1,760 Jews estimated to live in Wadi Hunayn and Ness Ziona together. Its main export
14-669: A census taker of the same religion as the occupants. The uncooperative Bedouin of the Southern District were counted approximately using counts of households and tithe records, leading to an estimate of 72,898 persons for that sector. A number of villages in the northern border area were not enumerated as they were still under French control, despite being in Palestine according to the Franco-British boundary agreement (1920) . The census did not cover Transjordan at all. A summary of
21-758: The Ottoman Empire , most recently in 1914, had been for the purpose of imposing taxation or locating men for military service. For this reason, the announcement of a census was unpopular and effort was made in advance to reassure the population. This was believed to be successful except in the case of the Bedouins of the Beersheva Subdistrict , who refused to cooperate. Many census gatherers, supervised by 296 Revising Operators and Enumerators, visited each dwelling, with special arrangements made for persons having no fixed address. Where possible, houses were visited by
28-467: The first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine , on 23 October 1922. The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The division into religious groups was 590,890 Muslims , 83,794 Jews , 73,024 Christians , 7,028 Druze , 408 Sikhs , 265 Baháʼís , 156 Metawalis , and 163 Samaritans . Censuses carried out by
35-400: The village was used as a launching point for Arab attacks on Jewish convoys to Jerusalem. Only a few of the original houses of the village remained, while the mosque (built in 1934) was converted into a synagogue by the neighboring Jewish population of Ness Ziona and renamed "Geulat Yisra'el" ("Israel's salvation"). 1922 census of Palestine The 1922 census of Palestine was
42-402: Was citrus , grown in orchards that were irrigated by numerous water wells dug around the village. The residents worked in the orchards and sold their yield at the cities. They grew bananas and grains as well. During the 1940s, the village became a main source of basic supplies and meat for the nearby Jewish and Palestinian inhabitants due to its strategic location on the main road. The village
49-572: Was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine . The majority of the inhabitants fled the village during January 1948, with the remaining population being transported into Jordan by the Haganah who entered the village on 19 April 1948. Wadi Hunayn was mostly destroyed by the Haganah forces, who blew up all the buildings near the main road as well as the local mosque's minaret , since
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