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Al-Hamra, Baysan was a Palestinian

Palestinian people

The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...

Arab

Arab people, also known as Arabs , are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds, with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing...

village in the District of Baysan

District of Baysan

The District of Baysan was an administrative district, situated in the British Mandate of Palestine around the city of Baysan. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the district disintegrated.-Depopulated settlements:...

. It was located 7.5 kilometres south of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, known to Israelis as the War of Independence or War of Liberation The war commenced after the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine and the creation of an independent Israel at midnight on 14 May 1948 when, following a period of civil war, Arab armies invaded...

. The village was named after the Bedouin

Bedouin

The Bedouin are a part of a predominantly desert-dwelling Arab ethnic group traditionally divided into tribes or clans, known in Arabic as ..-Etymology:...

tribe who settled in the village lands centuries ago. The population in 1945 was 730, expanding to 847 in 1948.

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