Kharruba

Kharruba was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, near Modi'in. It was located 8 km east of Ramla. It was depopulated on July 12, 1948 during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

History

In the 1860s, Victor Guérin described Kharruba as a hamlet of a few huts. He noticed the remains of a medieval fort and suggested it might be the Crusader castle Arnaldi. The following decade, the Survey of Western Palestine found only ruins.

At the time of the 1931 census, Kharruba had 21 occupied houses and a population of 119 Muslims. In 1945, the village had a population of 170, with a total of 3,374 dunams of land. Of this, a total of 1,620 dunums were used for cereals, 25 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, while 3 dunams were classified as built-up public areas.

It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 12, 1948 by the Yiftach Brigade which reported that it had blown up the houses and "cleared the village".

In 1992, the site consisted of stony rubble overgrown with vegetation.