Al-Salihiyya

Al-Salihiyya
Al-Salihiyya
Arabic	الصالحية
Also Spelled	Salihiya
Sub-district	Safad
Coordinates	33°10′02.25″N 35°36′44.60″E
Population	1520 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	May 25, 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Fear of being caught up in the fighting
Secondary cause	Whispering campaign

Al-Salihiyya (Arabic: الصالحية‎) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 25 km northeast of Safad, situated on the intersection of the Jordan River and Wadi Tur'an.

In 1945 it had a population of 1,520.

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.