Shahma
Sign in to saveShahma () was a Palestinian Arab village located southwest of Ramla. Depopulated on the eve of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the village lands today form part of a fenced-in area used by the Israeli Air Force.
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- Locality
- מועצה אזורית ברנר
- Region
- מחוז המרכז
- Country
- ישראל
- Population
- 1,607
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- British Mandate era
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Shahma () was a Palestinian Arab village located southwest of Ramla. Depopulated on the eve of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the village lands today form part of a fenced-in area used by the Israeli Air Force.
==Location== The village was situated on the coastal plain, southwest of Ramla, in a flat area that was slightly higher that the terrain to the south and southeast. Wadi al-Sarar ran about southwest of it, and a secondary road linked Shahma to al-Ramla. During World War II, the British built RAF Aqir military airport just north of the village, Shahma military base lay to the north and east.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shahma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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