Khan al-Duwayr
Khan al-Duwayr | |
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Khan al-Duwayr | |
Arabic | خان الدوير |
Subdistrict | Safad |
Coordinates | 33°14′22.24″N 35°40′18.90″E / 33.2395111°N 35.6719167°ECoordinates: 33°14′22.24″N 35°40′18.90″E / 33.2395111°N 35.6719167°E |
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
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.
External links
- Welcome To Khan al-Duwayr
- Khan al-Duwayr, Villages of Palestine
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