Khan al-Duwayr

Khan al-Duwayr
Khan al-Duwayr
Arabic خان الدوير
District Safad
Coordinates
Population 260 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation Not known[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation

Khan al-Duwayr (Arabic: خان الدوي‎) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 30, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 35 km northeast of Safad.

In 1945 it had a population of 260. The village had a khirbat named Tall al-Qadi which lay about 1 km to the northwest of the village.

References

  1. ^ Morris, 2004, p xvi, village # 390. Also gives both the date and cause for depopulation as "Not known"

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