• Town Statistics & Facts
• Satellite View
• Articles
• Pictures
• Directory Service
• Videos
• Message Boards
• Links
• Oral History

 

Statistic/Fact	Value
Israeli occupation date	October 19, 1948
Distance from district center	28.5 (km) West of Jerusalem
Elevation from the sea	250 (meters)
Map location	See location number #32 on the map
Israeli military operation	First phase of Operation ha-Har
Exodus Cause	Military assault by Jewish troops
Village remains after destruction by Israelis	al-Burayj was mostly destroyed and defaced.
Ethnically cleansing by Israelis	al-Burayj inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership before occupation	Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums) Arab 18,856 Jewish 0 Public 124 Total 19,080
Land usage in 1945	Land Usage Type Arab (Dunum) Area planted w/ citrus 31 Irrigated & Plantation 77 Area planted w/ olives 88 Planted W/ Cereal 9,426 Built up 14 Cultivable 9,534 Non-Cultivable 9,532
Population before occupation	Year Population 1922 382 1945 720 1948 835 Est. Refugees 1998 5,129
Number of houses	Year Number of houses 1931 132
Town's name through history	al-Burayj name was derived from the Greek purgos meaning a tower.
Religious institutions	al-Burayj had a mosque called al-'Umari mosque and a Greek Orthodox Monastery to the west.
Archeological sites	The village has several khirbas around it which contained cisterns, rock-hewn wine presses, tombs, foundations, columns, mosaic floors, and caves.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands	A large military base called Kanaf Staim occupies some of the village lands.
Related Maps	خرائط تفصيلية للمحافظة View from satellite Help us map this town at WikiMapia
More Information	Language External Links Arabic PalGates Hebrew Nakba in Hebrew   Nakba-Online

Bibliography and References

Town Today

The site is now part of a large military base called Kanaf Staim (Wing Two ). A large area is fenced in, and a watchtower has been built. The site is inaccessible to the public.

 

 
To contact any of the below members, simply click on the names.

Display Name	Clan/Hamolah	Country of Residence
ابوعلي	-	البريج
Ashraf Alhasan	Eskaki/ Hasan	-
محمد جمال	-	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Mustafa AbuSaab	AbuSaab	-
Mahmoud Abu-Saab	-	Jordan
البريجي	حسن	عمان
اشرف نصرالله	-	-
ابو محمد الشرش	الشرش	-
اشرف ابوخديجة	ابوخديجة	الرياض -, السعودية
مساعفه	-	-
ماجد عبد الهادي	-	قطر, قطر
Aktham Abu Khadijeh	-	-
محمد123 غطاس1984	-	-
mohloay	نصرالله	-
البريجي	نصرالله	الاردن, البريج
عبدالله نصرالله	نصرالله	المنورة, السعودية
شباب المسطقبل	-	القدس, حارس
saber	ESKAKI	-
Abdulqader Nasrallah	-	Dhahran, Khobar
NAEL HASAN	AL ESKAKI/ HASAN	AMMAN , JORDAN

All Registered Members

What is new?

-PalestineRemembered.com and its Nakba Oral History Project were featured on al-Jazeera Satellite TV.
-Nakba Oral History Video Podcast: Over 450 Oral History interviews (including 1,600 hours of recording) can be viewed now online.
-Gaza Jail Break
-Arabic version now available - النسخة العربية للموقع الان متوفرة
-Videos:Documenting the destroyed villages in video: Tracing all that remains since Nakba.
-Videos: Responding to Zionist Propaganda
-Satellite View & Google Earth: Over 6,000 placemarks identifying all destroyed towns, W. Bank & Gaza Strip Towns, & refugee camps.
-Interview:The ethnic cleansing of Palestine: George Galloway interviews Israeli Historian Ilan Pappe.
-For Palestinians, memory matters. It provides a blueprint for their future By George Bisharat.
-Zionist FAQ now available in Hebrew שאלות שציונים שואלים, עכשיו בעברית
-Video: The Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer report on the influence of the Israel Lobby on U.S. Foreign Policy
-The Nakba - an event that did not occur (although it had to occur) By Eitan Bronstein
-The Palestinian-Israeli conflict for beginners