Yarda, Safad

Yarda

Well at Yarda
Yarda
Arabic
District Safad
Coordinates
Population 20 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation
Cause(s) of depopulation
Current localities Ayyelet ha-Shahar and Mishmar ha-Yarden

Yarda was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 10.5 km northeast of Safad. The area is now part of the State of Israel.

In 1931 it had a populatuion of 13, growing to 20 in 1945. The Canaanites referred to the village as Hasur. Khirbat Waqqas was located west-northwest of the village.

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