page_title: Umm Kalkha
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Umm Kalkha / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Mansura 1945 1:250,000
context_page_description: Umm Kalkha was a small Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 7, 1948 during Operation Nachshon. It was located 12.5 km south of Ramla, situated on the northern banks of Wadi al-Sarar.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Umm Kalka had a population of 1 Muslim, increasing sharply in the  1931 census  24 Muslims, in 6 houses.
  In  the  1945 statistics  the population was 60, all Muslims, while the total land area was 1,405  dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this,  21  dunums of land were used for citrus and bananas, 93 dunums were plantations or  irrigated land, 1,119 were for cereals,  while a total of 63 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.
caption: Umm Khalkha 1945 1:250,000
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