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Al-Manshiyya, Safad

Summary

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]

Al-Manshiyya
المنشية
Village
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Manshiyya, Safad (click the buttons)
Al-Manshiyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Manshiyya
Al-Manshiyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°13′32″N 35°36′24″E / 33.22556°N 35.60667°E / 33.22556; 35.60667
Palestine grid206/292
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationNot known[1]
Population
 (1948)
 • Total140

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 edit

  1. ^ Morris, 2004, p xvi, village number 391. Gives both the date and cause for depopulation as "not known".
  2. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 473

Bibliography edit

  • 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 edit

  • Welcome To al-Manshiyya
  • Al-Manshiyya, Villages of Palestine
  • al-Manshiyya (Safed), Zochrot
  • Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons