Kafra
Kafra | |
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Kafra | |
Arabic | كفرة |
Subdistrict | Baysan |
Coordinates | 32°35′34.69″N 35°29′27.08″E / 32.5929694°N 35.4908556°ECoordinates: 32°35′34.69″N 35°29′27.08″E / 32.5929694°N 35.4908556°E |
Palestine grid | 196/222 |
Population | 430 (1945[1]) |
Area | 9,172 dunams |
Date of depopulation | May 16, 1948[2] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
Kafra (Arabic: كفرة) was a Palestinian Arab village located 10.5 kilometres north of Baysan. Built along both sides of the Wadi Kafra, the village had been known by this name since at least the time of the Crusades.[3] The population of the village in 1922 was 273, rising to an estimated 499 in 1948. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Palestine War on May 16, 1948.[2]
References
Bibliography
- Guérin, Victor (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (visited in 1875: p. 128)
- 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.
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