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Khirbat Al-Burj
Khirbat Al-Burj is located in Mandatory Palestine Khirbat Al-Burj Khirbat Al-Burj
Subdistrict	Haifa
Coordinates	32°30′34.35″N 34°56′26.20″E{{#coordinates:32|30|34.35|N|34|56|26.20|E|type:city_region:IL |primary |name= }}
Palestine grid	144/212
Date of depopulation	February 15, 1948

Khirbat Al-Burj was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War on February 15, 1948. It was located 34.5 km south of Haifa. Khirbat al-Burj contained a khirbat named Tel al-Burayj.

The village lands consisted of 5,291 dunums, 15 of which were owned by Arabs, 4,933 owned by Jews, and 343 were public.

Bibliography

• Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. 
• Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5. 
• Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6. 

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External list

• Welcome To al-Burj, Khirbat, Palestine Remembered
• al-Burj, Khirbat from Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre