Yarda, Safad

Yarda
Well at Yarda
Yarda
Arabic
Sub-district	Safad
Coordinates	33°0′27.45″N 35°35′38.40″E
Population	20 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation
Cause(s) of depopulation
Current localities	Ayyelet ha-Shahar and Mishmar ha-Yarden

Yarda was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 10.5 km northeast of Safad. The area is now part of the State of Israel.

In 1931 it had a populatuion of 13, growing to 20 in 1945. The Canaanites referred to the village as Hasur. Khirbat Waqqas was located west-northwest of the village.

References

• 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.

External links

• Welcome to Yarda
• Yarda, at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
• Yarda, Dr. Khalil Rizk.