Barrat Qisarya
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| Barrat Qisarya | |
 Barrat Qisarya
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| Arabic | |
| Sub-district | Haifa |
| Coordinates | 32°30′33.65″N 34°54′59.65″E / 32.5093472°N 34.9165694°ECoordinates: 32°30′33.65″N 34°54′59.65″E / 32.5093472°N 34.9165694°E |
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| Date of depopulation | mid-April, 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
| Secondary cause | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
Barrat Qisarya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 15, 1948. Today traces of walls, glass, marble fragments, and pottery fragments in the sand dunes are visible. It was located 32 km southwest of Haifa.
[edit] References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p.xviii, village #375. Also gives causes of depopulation.
[edit] Bibliography
- 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.
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