Al-Hamra'
| Al-Hamra' | |
|---|---|
  Al-Hamra' | |
| Arabic | الحمراء |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Coordinates | 33°09′10.56″N 35°38′51.20″E / 33.1529333°N 35.6475556°ECoordinates: 33°09′10.56″N 35°38′51.20″E / 33.1529333°N 35.6475556°E |
| Palestine grid | 210/284 |
| Date of depopulation | May 1, 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
| Secondary cause | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Al-Hamra' (Arabic: الحمراء ) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 24.5 km northeast of Safad, 1 km northwest of Wadi al-Dufayla.
References
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #20. Also gives causes 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.