sajad

In 1838, Sejad was noted as a place "in ruins or deserted."Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/120/mode/1up 120]

The village of Sajad was the site of a railway station built by the French in Ottoman era Palestine. In August 1892, the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway service was initiated; the train stopped in Sajad.Rafiq (1990):961. Cited in Khalidi, 1992, p.409{{cite journal|url=http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=20377050|title=The Vanishing Station at Sejed|author=Wahrman, Jacob|author2=Shafir, Ron |author3=Wahrman, Dror |journal=<>|issn=0334-4657|access-date=2009-10-29}} The station was closed after a new railway line and station were built at nearby Wadi Sarar in 1915.Gilbar, 1990, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=sdYUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA209 209]

The land which the villagers cultivated, was at one time owned by the Ottoman sultan Abd al-Hamid, but it was taken from him by the Ottoman government in 1908. After this, the village land was classified as jiftlik land, owned by the government but leased on a long-term basis to the villagers.Khalidi, 1992, p. 409

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Sajad had a population of 221 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n23/mode/1up 21] increasing in the 1931 census to 300, still all Muslims, in a total of 66 houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 23].

The village did not have a school on its own, but in 1945–46 it started sending its students to a school in Qazaza, a village to the southeast.Khalidi, 1992, pp. 405, 410

In the 1945 statistics the population was 370, all Muslims, while the total land area was 2,795 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/al-Ramla/Page-068.jpg 68] Of this, a total of 1,687 dunums of land were used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/al-Ramla/Page-117.jpg 117]. Also cited in Khalidi, 1992, p409 while 19 dunams were classified as built-up public areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/al-Ramla/Page-167.jpg 167]

A military operation planned by the pre-state Israeli forces against the village of Sajad as part of Operation Nahshon is recorded in a document from the Nahshon Headquarters to the 52nd Battalion, dated 15 April 1948.Morris, 2004, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA235 235], [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA293 293]–294 According to Benny Morris, "Battalion 3 was ordered to annihilate and destroy the village of Sajad." According to Khalidi the village was taken on 9–10 July as part of the Givati Brigade's Operation An-Far.

There are Palestinian refugees from Sajad who still long to return to the site of their former village and who express deep distrust of other Arab countries in which they live as refugees. . For example, Hassan, a refugee living in the Marka camp in Jordan stated: "We do not have any confidence in the Arabs and they are traitors, sometimes I get so depressed about it, I do not even want to talk to my children about what happened to my village Sajad in Palestine ... I prefer to live in a tent in my homeland than a castle anywhere else ... because I will always feel that the castle is not really mine."Chatty and Hunt, 2005, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=f2wyiOapjnYC&pg=PA96 96]

According to Walid Khalidi, the site of the former village of Sajad is inaccessible, as it is now a military zone in Israel.

• Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel

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• {{cite book|editor =Barron, J.B. | title = Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 |url=https://archive.org/details/PalestineCensus1922 |publisher = Government of Palestine | year = 1923}}
• {{cite book |last1=Chatty |first1=D. |author1-link=Dawn Chatty|last2=Hundt |first2=Gillian Lewando |title=Children of Palestine: Experiencing Forced Migration in the Middle East |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f2wyiOapjnYC |year=2005 |publisher=Berghan Books |isbn=1-84545-010-8}}
• {{cite book|last=Gilbar |first=Gad G. |title=Ottoman Palestine, 1800-1914: Studies in Economic and Social History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sdYUAAAAIAAJ|year=1990 |publisher=Brill Archive |isbn=90-04-07785-5}}
• {{cite book|title=Village Statistics, April, 1945 |url=http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/Hebrew/library/Pages/BookReader.aspx?pid=856390|author=Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics|year=1945}}
• {{cite book |title=Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html|first=S.|last=Hadawi|author-link=Sami Hadawi|year=1970|publisher=Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center}}
• {{cite book|title=All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ |first=W.|last=Khalidi|author-link=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies|isbn=0-88728-224-5}}
• {{cite book|editor = Mills, E. | title = Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas |url=https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas | publisher = Government of Palestine | location = Jerusalem | year = 1932}}
• {{cite book|author-link=Benny Morris |last=Morris |first=B. |year=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C |title=Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-00967-7}}
• {{cite book|last=Palmer|first=E.H.|author-link=Edward Henry Palmer|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund}}
• {{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=E.|author-link1=Edward Robinson (scholar)|last2=Smith|first2=E.|author-link2=Eli Smith|year=1841|url=https://archive.org/details/biblicalresearch03robiuoft |title=Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838| location=Boston|publisher=Crocker & Brewster|volume=3}}

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• [http://www.palestineremembered.com/al-Ramla/Sajad/index.html Welcome To Sajad]
• [http://www.zochrot.org/en/village/49328 Sajad], Zochrot
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 16: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8378 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.16.jpg Wikimedia commons]
• [http://www.alnakba.org/villages/ramla/sajad.htm Sajad] at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center

{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War}}

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