page_title: Al-Tina
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Al-Tina / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Idnibba 1945 1:250,000
context_page_description: Al-Tina, or Khirbet et-Tineh was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. The village was located between the Shfela and southern Israeli coastal plain. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 8, 1948, by the Givati Brigade under Operation An-Far. It was located 20. km south of Ramla. The hill on which the village was built stands today next to the Kiryat Mal'akhi – Yoav railway station and next to Highway 6. Archeological excavations at the site revealed the remains of a Byzantine settlement.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Tineh had a population of 396, all  Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 530, still all Muslims, in a total of 131 houses.
  'Abd al-Fattah Humud (1933-1968), one of the founding members of Fatah, was born in the village.
  In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 750 Muslims, with 7,001 dunams of land. Of  this, 141 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 5,639 for cereals, while 24 dunams were classified as built-up areas.
  An elementary school was founded in 1946 and it had an initial enrollment of 67 students.
caption: Al-Tina 1945 1:250,000
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