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Al-Dawwara
Sign in to saveAl-Dawwara () was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 27 km northeast of Safad, bordering three rivers that flowed into lake al-Hula: the al-Hasbani, Banyas, and Dan rivers.
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It is catalogued under topics including Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and District of Safad.
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Place details
- Locality
- מועצה אזורית גליל עליון
- Region
- מחוז הצפון
- Country
- ישראל
- Population
- 682
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- History
- British Mandate era
- 1948, aftermath
- See also
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Al-Dawwara () was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 27 km northeast of Safad, bordering three rivers that flowed into lake al-Hula: the al-Hasbani, Banyas, and Dan rivers.
In 1945 the village had a population of 1,100 (this figure included 400 Jewish residents of the Kibbutzim ‘Amir and Sde Nehemia).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Al-Dawwara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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