Al-Manshiyya, Safad
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Al-Manshiyya, Safad
This article is about the village in the Safad District. For other villages, see Al-Manshiyya.
| Al-Manshiyya | |
 Al-Manshiyya
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| Arabic | المنشية |
| District | Safad |
| Coordinates | 33°13′32.5″N 35°36′24.5″E / 33.225694°N 35.606806°ECoordinates: 33°13′32.5″N 35°36′24.5″E / 33.225694°N 35.606806°E |
| Population | 140 (1948) |
| Area | |
| Date of depopulation | Not known[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | |
Al-Manshiyya (Arabic: المنشية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad (located 30km northeast of Safad) that was depopulated by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach during the 1948 War on May 24, 1948.
In 1948 it had a population of 140.
References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p xvi, village number 391. Gives both the date and cause for depopulation as "not known".
Bibliography
- Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html
- 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. http://books.google.com/?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=benny+morris&q.
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