Khirbat Al-Kasayir

Al-Kasayir
Al-Kasayir
Arabic خربة الكساير
Subdistrict Haifa
Coordinates 32°47′36″N 35°08′19″E / 32.79333°N 35.13861°E / 32.79333; 35.13861Coordinates: 32°47′36″N 35°08′19″E / 32.79333°N 35.13861°E / 32.79333; 35.13861
Palestine grid 163/244
Population 290 (1945)
Date of depopulation mid-April, 1948[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation Military assault by Yishuv forces

Al-Kasayir (Arabic: خربة الكساير‎, Hebrew: ח'ירבת אל-קסאייר‬) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict, located 13 km east of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 16, 1948 under the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek.

History

Many inhabitants were Muslim Arabs who traced their origins to North Africa.

In 1945 Khirbat Al-Kasayir was counted among Shefa-'Amr suburbs, and it was noted with a population of 290 Muslims.[2][3][4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #383. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  2. ↑ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 15
  3. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 49
  4. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 92
  5. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 142

Bibliography

  • 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.
  • Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.


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