page_title: Bir Salim
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bir Salim / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Ramla 1941 1:20,000
context_page_description: Bir Salim was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 9, 1948 by the Givati Brigade. It was located 4 km west of Ramla.
context_section_description: In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 410 Muslims, while the total land area was 3,401  dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this,  742  dunums of village land was used for citrus and bananas,  510 dunums were irrigated or used for plantations, 1,468 dunums were  for cereals, while 681 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.
caption: Bir Salim 1941 1:20,000
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