Khan al-Duwayr
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| Khan al-Duwayr | |
| Arabic | خان الدوير |
| Sub-district | Safad |
| Coordinates | 33°14′22.24″N 35°40′18.90″E / 33.2395111°N 35.671917°ECoordinates: 33°14′22.24″N 35°40′18.90″E / 33.2395111°N 35.671917°E |
| Population | 260 (1945) |
| Area | |
| Date of depopulation | Not known[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation |
Khan al-Duwayr (Arabic: خان الدوي) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 30, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 35 km northeast of Safad.
In 1945 it had a population of 260. The village had a khirbat named Tall al-Qadi which lay about 1 km to the northwest of the village.
[edit] References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p xvi, village # 390. Also gives both the date and cause for depopulation as "Not known"
[edit] Bibliography
- Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html
- 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. http://books.google.com/?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=benny+morris&q.
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