"Qatra", ʿĀdel az-Zawaty, a Paper Clipping

Handwritten in Arabic, this paper clipping documents the name of "Qatra/Qatra Islam", a depopulated village, where the "Gadira", "Kadrun", and "Kasvot" colonies were established, fifteen kilometres southwest of al-Ramleh, thirty-one kilometres southeast of Jaffa, fifty-two kilometres from Gaza, and three kilometres northeast of Aqir Military Airport. Therefore, the village had a strategic location, also for being on the Gaza-Jaffa Road and for being connected with other villages like Bashshit, Shahma, Maghar, al-Mukhayzin, Aqir, and al-Masmiyya.  Set on the Canaanite village of "Ba'la", "Sadrun" in Roman times, the village is set at fifty metres above sea level in the Central Coastal Plain where Wadi as-Sarar passes one kilometre to the north. Landmarks in the village include cement and mudbrick rectangular houses spreading to the west and the south to reach twenty-six dunums in 1945. The village also features small shops, a mosque, a primary school for boys and girls, and a hill rich with ruins, ground foundations, antiquities, and mosaic.