We see what life was like in the late 1800s and early 1900s from the writings of Zionist Ahamd Haam. The native Palestinians were being confronted with immigration by a foreign people, Zionists.
The UN documents track changing demographics, as more Zionists immigrated to Palestine.
In other words you can't trace any Arab Palestinian presence further back than the 1800's and 1900's
Najd (Arabic: نجد*) was a Palestinian Arab village, located 14 kilometers (8.7 mi) northeast of Gaza City. During the British Mandate in Palestine, children from Najd attended school in the nearby village of Simsim. On 13 May 1948,
Najd was occupied by the Negev Brigade as part of Operation Barak, and the villagers were expelled[6] and fled to Gaza.
Under the rule of the Ottoman Empire,
in 1596, Najd formed part nahiya (subdistrict) of Gaza under the liwa' (district) of Gaza
with a population of 215. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley and fruit, as well as on goats, beehives and vineyards.[8]
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Nejd had a population of 305, all Muslims,[13] while in the 1931 census, Najd had 82 occupied houses and a population of 422 Muslims.[14]
Cultivated lands in the village in 1944-45 included a total of 10 dunums allocated for citrus and bananas and 11,916 dunums for cereals. An additional 511 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. The population at this time was 620.[12][15]
1948 War and aftermath
According to Benny Morris, the villagers of Najd were "driven out" by soldiers from the Negev Brigade on 1213 May, during the 1948 ArabIsraeli War.[6]
The Israeli city of Sderot was founded in 1951 on village land, a few miles to the south of the village site,[12] while Or HaNer was founded in 1957 also on village land, to the northeast.[12]
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