Khirbat Al-Kasayir
Al-Kasayir | |
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Al-Kasayir | |
Subdistrict | Haifa |
Coordinates | 32°47′36″N 35°08′18.8″E / 32.79333°N 35.138556°ECoordinates: 32°47′36″N 35°08′18.8″E / 32.79333°N 35.138556°E |
Palestine grid | 163/244 |
Date of depopulation | mid-April, 1948[1] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Al-Kasayir (Arabic: خربة الكساير, Hebrew: ח'ירבת אל-קסאייר) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict, located 13 km east of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 16, 1948 under the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek.
Many inhabitants were Muslim Arabs who traced their origins to North Africa.
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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