Sar'a
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Sar'a (صرعة) in Arabic, is a village located 25 km west of Jerusalem and was a part of Palestine before the Arab-Israeli war in 1948, it was taken over by Israeli soldiers during July 13th-14th, 1948, as a part of Operation Dani by the Israeli attacking brigade:Har'el's Fourth Battalion. The Canaanites referred to Sar'a by the city of Sur'a or Zorah, subsequently it was known by Danite, then the Romans called it Sarea. Sar'a had two shrines one of which is still standing. The first belongs to al-Nabi Samat, and the other for an unknown individuals, and The village has several Khirbas including Khirbat al-Tahuna, where the ruins of a building constructed of ashlars (squared stone masonry) and the foundations of other buildings. Sar'a inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed, and some families originated from this village ,like the Zahran family, had to move to refugee camps like Qalandiya's refugee camp, before 1967. The Israeli settlements that have been established on the villages ground are Tarum and Tzora. According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are: Stone rubble and iron girders are strewn among the trees on the site. A flat stone, surrounded by debris and inscribed with Arabic verses from the Qur'an, bears the date A.H. 1355 (1936). On the western edge of the site stands a shrine containing the tombs of two local religious teachers. A valley to the northeast is covered with fig, almond, and cypress trees
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