Al-Hamra'
Al-Hamra' | |
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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
Bibliography
- 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 al-Hamra'
- Al-Hamra’, Villages of Palestine
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