Al-'Urayfiyya

Al-'Urayfiyya
Al-'Urayfiyya
Subdistrict Safad
Coordinates 33°06′37.65″N 35°38′53.10″E / 33.1104583°N 35.6480833°E / 33.1104583; 35.6480833Coordinates: 33°06′37.65″N 35°38′53.10″E / 33.1104583°N 35.6480833°E / 33.1104583; 35.6480833
Palestine grid 211/279
Date of depopulation April 1, 1948

Al-'Urayfiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 21.5 km northeast of Safad. The village has been mostly destroyed with the exception of the remains of a water mill and masonry channel.

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