page_title: Qatra
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Qatra / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Bashshit 1945 1:250,000
context_page_description: Qatra was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, located 15 kilometers southwest of the city of Ramla and 40 kilometers west of Jerusalem, some 50 meters above sea level. It was depopulated in May 1948.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted  by the British Mandate authorities, Qatra Islam had a population of 640; 639  Muslims  and 1 Orthodox Christian increasing in the 1931 census to 822, all Muslims, in a total of 175 houses.
  During its existence as a village in the British Mandate of Palestine it was referred to as Qatrat Islam to distinguish it from the Jewish settlement of Qatrat Yahud or Gedera, as it is called in Hebrew, established in the late 19th century.
  In the 1945 statistics the population was 1,290, all Muslims,  while the total land area was 7,853  dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, Arabs used 291 dunams for citrus and bananas, 215 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, 4,320 dunums were allocated to cereals, while 26 dunams were classified as built-up urban areas.
caption: Qatra 1945 1:250,000
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