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Bayt Umm al-Mays
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “small palestinian arab village in the district of jerusalem”. Today it says “small palestinian arab village in the jerusalem sub-district”.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “small palestinian arab village in the district of jerusalem”. Today it says “small palestinian arab village in the jerusalem sub-district”.
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Bayt Umm al-Mays was a small Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Sub-district , located 14 km west of Jerusalem .. The village was established and settled during the late British Mandatory period, and had 70 inhabitants in 1945. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 21, 1948, by the Har'el Brigade of Operation ha-Har . Also gives cause of depopulation, both with a "?" Grossman, D. "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies .
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small palestinian arab village in the district of jerusalem
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small palestinian arab village in the jerusalem sub-district
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