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Nitaf
نطاف Nataf[1] | |
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  Nitaf Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°50′13″N 35°03′55″E / 31.83694°N 35.06528°E | |
| Palestine grid | 156/138 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Jerusalem |
| Date of depopulation | 15 April 1948 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,401 dunams (1.401 km2 or 346 acres) |
| Population (1945)[2][3] | |
| • Total | 40 |
Nitaf (Arabic: نطاف, Natâf) was a small, short-lived Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. It was established in the early 20th century.[4] It was forcefully depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 15, 1948, during the second stage of Operation Dani. It was located 17 km west of Jerusalem, just north of Bayt Thul.
The Israeli village of Nataf was built in 1982, south of the ruins of Nitaf.
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 306.
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 25
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 57
- ^ Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 362