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Khirbat Bayt Far

Khirbat Bayt Far was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, located 14 km south of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 7, 1948.

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.

In 1838, in the late Ottoman era, it was noted as a village in ruins.

In 1863 Victor Guérin noted "important ruins" here. "There once stood a hamlet, the ruins of which are scattered over a feeble mound amid the bushes and tall grass."

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found here: "Walls and foundations, apparently modern, with caves and a spring."

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Bait Far had a population of 28 Muslims, decreasing in the 1931 census to 26 Muslims, in a total of 11 houses.

In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 300 Muslims with a total of 5,604 dunums of land. Of this, 19 dunums were for plantations and irrigable land, 5,337 dunums were for cereals, while a total of 248 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.

On 11 January 1948, Kfar Uriah was attacked by Arabs who came from neighboring Beit Jiz and Khirbet Beit Far.

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