Khan al-Duwayr

Khan al-Duwayr
Khan al-Duwayr
Arabic خان الدوير
Subdistrict Safad
Coordinates 33°14′22.24″N 35°40′18.90″E / 33.2395111°N 35.6719167°E / 33.2395111; 35.6719167Coordinates: 33°14′22.24″N 35°40′18.90″E / 33.2395111°N 35.6719167°E / 33.2395111; 35.6719167
Palestine grid 213/293
Population 260 (1945)
Date of depopulation Not known[1]

Khan al-Duwayr (Arabic: خان الدوي‎) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 30, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 35 km northeast of Safad.

In 1945 it had a population of 260. The village had a khirbat named Tall al-Qadi which lay about 1 km to the northwest of the village.

References

  1. ↑ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village # 390. Also gives both the date and cause for depopulation as "Not known"

Bibliography

  • Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
  • Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
  • Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • 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.
  • Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
  • Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.


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