Al-Ruways
Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 330
- Coordinates
- 32.864, 35.178
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: depopulated Palestinian village
History
Al-Ruways, was a Palestinian Arab village on a rocky hill located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) southeast of Acre and south of the village of al-Damun. Its population in 1945 was 330. Al-Ruways was depopulated following its capture by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.