Al-Manshiyya, Safad

This article is about the village in the Safad District. For other villages, see Al-Manshiyya.
Al-Manshiyya
Al-Manshiyya
Arabic المنشية
Subdistrict Safad
Coordinates 33°13′32.5″N 35°36′24.5″E / 33.225694°N 35.606806°E / 33.225694; 35.606806Coordinates: 33°13′32.5″N 35°36′24.5″E / 33.225694°N 35.606806°E / 33.225694; 35.606806
Palestine grid 206/292
Population 140 (1948)
Date of depopulation Not known[1]

Al-Manshiyya (Arabic: المنشية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict (located 30km northeast of Safad) that was depopulated by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach during the 1948 War on May 24, 1948.[2]

In 1948 it had a population of 140.

References

  1. Morris, 2004, p xvi, village number 391. Gives both the date and cause for depopulation as "not known".
  2. Khalidi, 1992, p. 473

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