Innaba

'Innaba (Arabic: عنابة), also spelled 'Annaba, was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 10, 1948 by the Yiftach and Eighth Brigades of Operation Dani. It was located 7 km east of Ramla. In Roman times, the village was called "Betoannaba" (Bετοάνναβα), meaning "House of the Grape". Ceramics from the Roman and Byzantine periods have been found here. Al-Muqaddasi (c. 945/946 - 991), in his description of Ramla, noted that it had a gate called "The gate of the Innaba Mosque". 'Innaba, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. In 1552, 'Innaba was an inhabited village. Haseki Hürrem Sultan, the favourite wife of Suleiman the Magnificent, endowed the tax revenues of 'Annaba to its Haseki Sultan Imaret in Jerusalem. Administratively, the village belonged to the Sub-district of Ramla in the District of Gaza. During that time, the villagers drank from an arthesian well called Bayyarat 'Annaba.