Al-Manshiyya
المنشية | |
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Village | |
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  Al-Manshiyya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°13′32″N 35°36′24″E / 33.22556°N 35.60667°E | |
| Palestine grid | 206/292 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | Not known[1] |
| Population (1948) | |
| • Total | 140 |
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. 1948 was also the year the village was destroyed and depopulated. It is now mainly deserted with multiple abandoned buildings.
References
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.
External links
- Welcome To al-Manshiyya
- Al-Manshiyya, Villages of Palestine
- al-Manshiyya (Safed), Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons
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This page was last edited on 10 March 2023, at 14:57