page_title: Barqa, Gaza
section_title: British Mandate of Palestine
hierarchical_section_title: Barqa, Gaza / History / British Mandate of Palestine
caption_attribution_description: English: Barqa &amp; Yasur, Gaza District, 1945 العربية: خريطة توضح موقع قريتي برقة وياصور في شمال قطاع غزة عام 1945.
context_page_description: Barqa was a Palestinian Arab village located 37 km north of Gaza near the modern-day Israeli city of Ashdod. It was referred to as Barka by the Greeks and Bareca by the Romans during their rule over the ancient Philistine city. In 1945, the village had a population of 890 and total land area of 5,206 dunums.
  It was occupied and depopulated on May 13, 1948 during Operation Barak, a Yishuv offensive in southern Palestine just prior to the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Burqa had a population of 448 inhabitants, all Muslims, which had increased in  the 1931 census  to 600, 593 Muslim, 6 Jews and 1 Christian, in a total of in 123 houses.
  In  the 1945 statistics the population of Barqa consisted of  890, all Muslims,  and the  land area was 5,206  dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 667 dunams were designated for  citrus and bananas, 
  47 for plantations and irrigable land, 4,031 for cereals, while 26 dunams were built-up areas.
caption: Barqa, Gaza District,1945
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