Al-'Urayfiyya
Al-'Urayfiyya | |
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Al-'Urayfiyya | |
Subdistrict | Safad |
Coordinates | 33°06′37.65″N 35°38′53.10″E / 33.1104583°N 35.6480833°ECoordinates: 33°06′37.65″N 35°38′53.10″E / 33.1104583°N 35.6480833°E |
Palestine grid | 211/279 |
Date of depopulation | April 1, 1948 |
Al-'Urayfiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. 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 21.5 km northeast of Safad. The village has been mostly destroyed with the exception of the remains of a water mill and masonry channel.
References
- 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