Sufla

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Sufla
Arabic
Subdistrict	Jerusalem
Population	60 (1946)
Area	2,061 dunams
Date of depopulation	October 19, 1948^[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces

Sufla was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 19, 1948 by the Sixth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade under Operation ha-Har. It was located 18.5 km west of Jerusalem.

In 1945, the village had a population of 60. A shrine was located in the village dedicated to a local sage called al-Shaykh Mu'annis.

References

↑ Morris, 2004, p.xx, village #340. Also gives cause of depopulation.

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

External links

Welcome To Sufla
Sufla, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center

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Coordinates: 31°44′05″N 35°02′28″E / 31.73472°N 35.04111°E / 31.73472; 35.04111

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