Al-Manara

Al-Manara
Arabic	المنارة
Sub-district	Tiberias
Population	580 (1945)
Area	6,797 dunums
Date of depopulation	early March, 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces

Al-Manara (Arabic: المنارة‎) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 1, 1948 by Jewish troops. It was located 5 km south of Tiberias. The Crusaders referred to al-Manara as Menan.^{[citation needed]}

In 1945 it had total population of 580. Al-Manara contains Khirbat al-Manara and Khirbat Sarjuna.

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