Ishwa

Ishwa

إشوع
Ishwa إشوع
	Etymology: from Eshua, personal name
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Ishwa (click the buttons)
	Ishwa Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 31°46′50″N 35°00′40″E / 31.78056°N 35.01111°E
Palestine grid	151/132
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jerusalem
Date of depopulation	18 July 1948
Population (1948)
• Total	719
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Eshtaol

Ishwa' (Arabic: إشوع) was a Palestinian village which was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The village was located about 20 km west of Jerusalem, on the present location of Eshta'ol. In the 1931 British census of Palestine, Ishwa had a population of 468 in 126 houses. The village was occupied by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on July 16, 1948, in Operation Dani by the Harel Brigade. All of its inhabitants fled or were expelled.

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 295
^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, village #331. Also gives the cause for depopulation
^ "Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics". Archived from the original on 2012-02-12. Retrieved 2008-12-23.
^ Cite error: The named reference Morris78 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

Ishwa إشوع
Etymology: from Eshua, personal name^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Ishwa (click the buttons)
Ishwa Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°46′50″N 35°00′40″E / 31.78056°N 35.01111°E / 31.78056; 35.01111
Palestine grid	151/132
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jerusalem
Date of depopulation	18 July 1948^[2]
Population (1948^[3])
• Total	719
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Eshtaol^[4]