Sarafand al-Amar
صرفند العمار Sarafand al-Kubra | |
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Village | |
| Etymology: from a personal name[1] | |
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  Sarafand al-Amar Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°57′34″N 34°50′58″E / 31.95944°N 34.84944°E | |
| Palestine grid | 136/151 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Ramle |
| Date of depopulation | Not known[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 13,267 dunams (13.267 km2 or 5.122 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 1,950[2][3] |
| Current Localities | Zerifin and Nir Zevi |
Sarafand al-Ammar (Arabic: صرفند العمار) was a Palestinian Arab village situated on the coastal plain of Palestine, about 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) northwest of Ramla. It had a population of 1,950 in 1945 and a land area of 13,267 dunams.[3]
In December 1918, the village's adult male population was killed by New Zealand forces in the aftermath of the Sinai and Palestine campaign, in an illegal retribution for the killing of a New Zealand soldier. It was then depopulated entirely during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.[5]
Today it is part of the Israeli area of Tzrifin.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 219
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 68.
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #225. Morris gives both cause and date of depopulation as "not known".
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 411