Al-Muftakhira

Al-Muftakhira
Village
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Al-Muftakhira is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Muftakhira
Al-Muftakhira
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°09′31″N 35°38′23″E / 33.15861°N 35.63972°E / 33.15861; 35.63972
Palestine grid209/284
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 16, 1948[3]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
350[1][2]
Cause(s) of depopulationFear of being caught up in the fighting
Current LocalitiesShamir, Israel[4]

Al-Muftakhira was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated in the 1948 War on May 16, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion during Operation Yiftach. It was located 25.5 km northeast of Safad.

In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 350.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
  2. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #16. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  4. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p.478

Bibliography

  • Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. Archived from the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  • Khalidi, W. (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.
  • Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
  • Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.


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