Al-Muftakhira
Al-Muftakhira | |
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Al-Muftakhira | |
Subdistrict | Safad |
Coordinates | 33°09′25″N 35°38′34.55″E / 33.15694°N 35.6429306°ECoordinates: 33°09′25″N 35°38′34.55″E / 33.15694°N 35.6429306°E |
Palestine grid | 209/284 |
Population | 350 (1945) |
Date of depopulation | May 16, 1948[1] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
Current localities | Shamir, Israel[2] |
Al-Muftakhira was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 16, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 25.5 km northeast of Safad.
In 1945 it had a population of 350.
References
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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