This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Al-Hamidiyya (Arabic: الحميديه), was a Palestinian village in the District of Baysan.
It was depopulated by the Jewish militias, precursors of the Israel Defense Forces, during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948.
The village takes its name from the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Abdul Hamid II (1876–1909).
[4] Some of the tenants were Bedouins and some fellaheen (peasants), with the former usually calling their village "Arab al-..." followed by the tribal name, which is not the case with Hamidiyya, which can mean that they were of fellah stock.
For this reason a veteran local leader, Nahum Hurwitz of Kfar Gil'adi appealed in a letter in September 1948 for permission to destroy al-Bira, Kawkab al-Hawa, Jabbul, and al-Hamidiyya in the area for fear that they may be used by Arabs for military operations and to enable them to "take the village's lands, because the Arabs won't be able to return there".