page_title: Hiribya
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Hiribya / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Ashkelon 1945 1:250,000
context_page_description: Hirbiya Arabic: هربيا‎ was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, located 14 kilometers northeast of Gaza along the southern coastal plain of Palestine. Situated where the Battle of La Forbie took place in 1244, it was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Herbia  had a population of 1,037 inhabitants, consisting of 1031 Muslims and 6 Christians,  where all the Christians were Orthodox. The population had increased in the 1931 census to 1,520; 1,510 Muslims and 10 Christians, in 234 houses. Hirbiya had a mosque and elementary school, both located in the village center. The school opened in 1922 and had an enrollment of 124 students in the 1940s.
  In  1945 Hiribya had a population of 2,300; 2,200 Muslims, 40 Christians  and 60 Jews, with a total of 22,312  dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 2,765 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 6,106 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 2,037  for cereals, while 92  dunams were built-up land.
caption: Hiribya 1945 1:250,000
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