Qaddita
Sign in to saveQaddita (, transliteration: Qaddîtâ) was a Palestinian Arab village of 240, located northwest of Safad. It was captured and depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, with some of its inhabitants expelled or fleeing to nearby 'Akbara where they live as internally displaced Palestinians and others to refugee camps in Lebanon or Syria.
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- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Located in
- Safad Subdistrict
- Population
- 240
- Elevation
- 750
- Image
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Qaddita (, transliteration: Qaddîtâ) was a Palestinian Arab village of 240, located northwest of Safad. It was captured and depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, with some of its inhabitants expelled or fleeing to nearby 'Akbara where they live as internally displaced Palestinians and others to refugee camps in Lebanon or Syria.
==History== It is possible that the name "Qaddita" is an Arabic distortion of the Aramaic word kaddish.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qaddita” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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