Al-Manshiyya, Tulkarm

This article is about the village in the Tulkarm District. For other villages, see Al-Manshiyya.

Al-Manshiyya
Arabic	المنشية
Also Spelled	Khirbet Manshiya
Sub-district	Tulkarm
Population	260 (1945)
Area	16,770 dunums
Date of depopulation	April 15, 1948
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) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tulkarm. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 15, 1948 under Coastal Clearing. It was located 12.5 km northwest of Tulkarm.

In 1945 it had a population of 260.

References

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.