Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri
Place in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine
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Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on 10 April 1948. It was located 40 km south of Haifa.
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Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri
عرب ظهرة الضميري Dumeira, al[1] | |
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  Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°27′31″N 34°54′24″E | |
| Palestine grid | 141/207 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Haifa |
| Date of depopulation | 10 April 1948[1] |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 620[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
History
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al Damaireh had a population of 227 Muslims.[4]
The population in the 1945 statistics was 620, all Muslims,[2] with a total of 1,387 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[3] Of this, Arabs used 263 dunams for cereals,[5] while a total of 512 dunams were non-cultivable land.[6]
On 6 April 1948, the Haganah implemented a new policy for the coastal plains, namely of clearing the whole area of its Arab inhabitants. On 10 April the villagers of Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri, together with the villagers of Arab al-Fuqara and Arab al-Nufay'at, were ordered to leave the area.[7]
