Al-Manshiyya, Safad
Al-Manshiyya (Arabic: المنشية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict (located 30 km northeast of Safad) that was depopulated by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach during the 1948 War on May 24, 1948.[2]
Al-Manshiyya
المنشية | |
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Village | |
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
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Al-Manshiyya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
Coordinates: 33°13′32″N 35°36′24″E | |
Palestine grid | 206/292 |
Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
Subdistrict | Safad |
Date of depopulation | Not known[1] |
Population (1948) | |
• Total | 140 |
In 1948 it had a population of 140. 1948 was also the year the village was destroyed and depopulated. It is now mainly deserted with multiple abandoned buildings.
References
- Morris, 2004, p xvi, village number 391. Gives both the date and cause for depopulation as "not known".
- Khalidi, 1992, p. 473
Bibliography
- Khalidi, W. (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.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
External links
- Welcome To al-Manshiyya
- Al-Manshiyya, Villages of Palestine
- al-Manshiyya (Safed), Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons
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