Qaytiyya

Qaytiyya
Qaytiyya
Arabic
Also Spelled	Qeitiya
Sub-district	Safad
Coordinates	33°11′59.31″N 35°36′46.67″E
Population	940 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	May 19, 1948/June 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Whispering campaign
Secondary cause	Expulsion by Yishuv forces

Qaytiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 19, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 28 km northeast of Safad, bordering both the Hasibani and the Dan Rivers.

In 1945, the village had a population of 940.

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.