Al-Manshiyya, Safad

Al-Manshiyya
Al-Manshiyya
Arabic المنشية
Subdistrict Safad
Coordinates 33°13′32″N 35°36′24″E / 33.22556°N 35.60667°E / 33.22556; 35.60667Coordinates: 33°13′32″N 35°36′24″E / 33.22556°N 35.60667°E / 33.22556; 35.60667
Palestine grid 206/292
Population 140 (1948)
Date of depopulation Not known[1]

Al-Manshiyya (Arabic: المنشية‎) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict (located 30 km northeast of Safad) that was depopulated by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach during the 1948 War on May 24, 1948.[2]

In 1948 it had a population of 140.

References

  1. ↑ Morris, 2004, p xvi, village number 391. Gives both the date and cause for depopulation as "not known".
  2. ↑ Khalidi, 1992, p. 473

Bibliography

  • Khalidi, W. (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.
  • Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
  • Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.


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