Al-Manshiyya, Tulkarm
Al-Manshiyya | |
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Arabic | المنشية |
Also spelled | Khirbet Manshiya[1] |
Subdistrict | Tulkarm |
Palestine grid | 144/200 |
Population | 260 (1945) |
Area | 16,770 dunams |
Date of depopulation | April 15, 1948[1] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
Current localities | 'En ha-Choresh, Giv'at Chayyirn, and Achituv |
Al-Manshiyya (Arabic: المنشية), also known as Khirbat Manshiyya, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 15, 1948 under Operation Coastal Clearing. It was located 12.5 km northwest of Tulkarm.
In the 1931 census of Palestine, the village was counted under Attil, together with Jalama and Zalafa.[2] In 1945, it had a population of 260.
References
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- 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. (p. 557)
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
External links
- Welcome To al-Manshiyya, Palestine Remembered
- SWP map 11, IAA
- SWP map 11, Wikimedia commons