Al-Kabri

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al-Kabri was a Palestinian town that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.


al-Kabri
District District of Acre
Location 12.5 km northeast of Acre
Date of capture May 20-21, 1948
Israeli military operation Operation Ben-Ami
Israeli brigade Carmeli Brigade
Remaining population after capture 0
Remaining structures after capture none
Population
1596 1931 1945
n/a 728 1,520
Number of houses 1931: 173
Historical names
Caananite name n/a
Roman name n/a
Crusader name Cabra
Israeli localities Kibbutz Kabri, Ga'ton, Me'ona, En Ya'aqov, Ma'alot
Public structures n/a

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Khalidi, Walid (ed.) (1992): All that Remains. Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.

Morris, Benny (2004): The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81120-1.

Nazzal, Nafez (1974): The Zionist occupation of western Galilee, 1948, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3, 58-76.

Porat, Leea (2006): Akko, the aqueduct, Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, No. 118. [1]

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