Hadatha

Hadatha
Arabic
Sub-district	Tiberias
Population	603 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	May 12, 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Abandonment on Arab orders

Hadatha was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was abandoned during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948 under the orders of the Arab Higher Committee. It was located 12.5 km southwest of Tiberias.

A 1596 census revealed a population of 121. In 1945, the village population was 603. Hadatha had an elementary school for boys which was founded in 1897 by Ottomans but had closed under the British Mandate.

See also

• Ein Hod

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