Wa'arat al-Sarris
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 Wa'arat al-Sarris
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| Arabic | وعرة السرّيس |
| Sub-district | Haifa |
| Coordinates | 32°48′50.2″N 35°07′07.85″E / 32.813944°N 35.1188472°ECoordinates: 32°48′50.2″N 35°07′07.85″E / 32.813944°N 35.1188472°E |
| Population | 190 (1945) |
| Area | |
| Date of depopulation | unknown[1] |
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Wa'arat al-Sarris (Arabic: وعرة السرّيس) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 16, 1948 under Operation Bi'ur Chametz. The village was located 11 km east of Haifa.
In 1945 it had a population of 190.
[edit] References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #381. Morris gives both date and cause of depopulation as "Not known".
[edit] 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.
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