Al-Muftakhira

Al-Muftakhira
Al-Muftakhira
Arabic
Sub-district	Safad
Coordinates	33°09′25″N 35°38′34.55″E
Population	350 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	May 16, 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Fear of being caught up in the fighting
Current localities	Shamir, Israel

Al-Muftakhira was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 16, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 25.5 km northeast of Safad.

In 1945 it had a population of 350.

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.