Ghost Towns
Daniyal
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💥 War & expulsion

Daniyal

Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
410
Coordinates
31.931, 34.929
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Why it was abandoned

💥 War & expulsion

Detected automatically from the text: It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 10, 1948, by the Yiftach Brigade under the first phase of Operation Dani, as part of the broader 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight and Nakba.

History

Daniyal was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict that was located 5 km east of Ramla and southeast of Lydda. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 10, 1948, by the Yiftach Brigade under the first phase of Operation Dani, as part of the broader 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight and Nakba.

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