Shilta
Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 31.918, 35.021
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 18, 1948, by the First Battalion of the Yiftach Brigade in the Operation Danny.
History
Shilta was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. Sitting on a hill, It was probably settled in the 19th century. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 18, 1948, by the First Battalion of the Yiftach Brigade in the Operation Danny. It was located 15 km east of Ramla.