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{{Short description|Palestinian village, depopulated in 1948}}
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{{Infobox settlement
| name = al-Imara
| native_name = العمارة
| native_name_lang = ar
| settlement_type =

| etymology = "the Building"

| pushpin_map = Mandatory Palestine | pushpin_map_caption = Location within [[Mandatory Palestine]] | image_map = {{Historical map series|default=2|date1=1870s|date2=1940s|date3=modern|date4=1940s with modern overlay|width=225}} | map_caption = A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Imara (click the buttons)
| pushpin_mapsize = 200
| coordinates = {{coord|31|18|11|N|34|31|14|E|type:city_region:PS|display=inline,title}}
| grid_name = [[Palestine grid|Palestine grid]]
| grid_position = 104/080

| subdivision_type = [[Geopolitical entity]]
| subdivision_name = [[Mandatory Palestine]]
| subdivision_type1 = [[Districts of Mandatory Palestine|Subdistrict]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Beersheba Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine|Beersheba]]

| established_title1 = Date of depopulation
| established_date1 = October 1948
| established_title2 = Repopulated dates

| unit_pref = dunam


| blank_name_sec1 = Cause(s) of depopulation
| blank_info_sec1 = Expulsion by [[Yishuv]] forces
| blank3_name_sec1 = Current Localities
| blank3_info_sec1 = [[Urim, Israel|Urim]]<ref name=Khalidi73>Khalidi, 1992, p. 73</ref> [[Ofakim]]<ref name=Davis>{{Citation|title=In Search of the Abu Sitta Sword |url=http://leftcurve.org/LC32WebPages/In%20Search%20of%20Abu%20Sitta%20Sward.UriDavis.pdf |first=Uri |last=Davis |author-link=Uri Davis |year=2008 |page=12 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101101042759/http://leftcurve.org/LC32WebPages/In%20Search%20of%20Abu%20Sitta%20Sward.UriDavis.pdf |archive-date=2010-11-01 }}</ref>
}}
'''al-Imara''' ({{langx|ar|العمارة}}), was a [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] village, located in the northern [[Negev|Negev Desert]] {{convert|27|km|mi|sp=us}} northwest of [[Beersheba]].

==History==
In the [[Mandatory Palestine|British mandate]] period the village was classified as a [[Hamlet (place)|hamlet]] by the ''Palestine Index Gazetteer''.<ref>Khalidi, 1992, p.72</ref>

=== Post-1948 ===
During the [[1948 Arab-Israeli War]], the village was captured by the [[Yiftach Brigade]] in early October, meeting with no resistance. The [[Jewish]] kibbutz of [[Urim, Israel|Urim]] is built on the lands of the former village, being approximately {{convert|1|km|mi|sp=us}} south of the original village site.<ref name=Khalidi73/>

The Palestinian historian [[Walid Khalidi]], described the village remains in 1992:
"The village site has been completely built over by the [[kibbutz]] of Urim. Although the kibbutz was established in 1946 near the village of Al-Imara, during the [[1948 Arab-Israeli War]], it was moved to the site of the former British police station. About 2 km southeast of the current kibbutz there are remains of several stone structures. These were the houses that belonged to [[Bedouin]] families before 1948 and were not considered part of al-Imara.<ref name="Khalidi73"/>

==See also==
*[[Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel]]

==References==
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==Bibliography==
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*{{cite book|title=All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ |first=W.|last=Khalidi|author-link=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=[[Washington D.C.]]|publisher=[[Institute for Palestine Studies]]|isbn=0-88728-224-5}}
*{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C |first=B. |last=Morris |author-link=Benny Morris |year=2004 |title=The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited|isbn=978-0-521-00967-6 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}
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==External links==
*[http://www.palestineremembered.com/Beersheba/al-%27Imara/index.html Welcome to al-Imara] at Palestine Remembered
*[http://www.zochrot.org/en/village/49375 al-'Imara], [[Zochrot]]
{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War}}

[[Category:Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War]]
[[Category:District of Beersheba]]

Al-Imara - Revision history

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