Al-Maghar

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Al-Maghar was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine.

[13][14] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as consisting almost entirely of adobe houses, "occupying the south slope of the hill, and built in front of caves in the rock.

[16] The Battle of Mughar Ridge between British and Ottoman forces in the World War I was fought in the environs of Al-Maghar.

[22] In early 1949, American Quaker relief workers reported that many of those living in tents in what became Maghazi refugee camp had come from Al-Maghar.

[23] The Israeli moshav of Beit Elazari is built on the land of the destroyed Palestinian town of Al-Maghar.

El Maghar 1930 1:20,000