District of Safad - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The District of Safad was an administrative district, situated in the British Mandate of Palestine around the city of Safad. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, known to Israelis as the War of Independence or War of Liberation The war commenced after the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine and the creation of an independent Israel at midnight on 14 May 1948 when, following a period of civil war, Arab armies invaded...

, the district disintegrated.

Depopulated settlements

Abil al-Qamh

Abil al-Qamh was a Palestinian Arab village located north of Safad and south of the Lebanese-Israeli border. It was built in a hilly area north of the Hula Valley.-History:...

al-'Abisiyya

Al-'Abisiyya

Al-'Abisiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 29, 1948 by The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 28.5 km northeast of Safad near to the Banyas River which the village relied on...

'Akbara

Akbara was a Palestinian village, located 2.5 kilometres south of Safad, which was depopulated in 1948.- Location :The village of 'Akbara was situated 2.5 km south of Safad, along the two sides of a deep wadi that ran north-south. Southeast of the village lay Khirbat al-Uqayba, identified as...

Alma

Alma, Palestine

Alma was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 30, 1948 during Operation Hiram. It was located 10 km north of Safad.In 1945 it had a population of 950...

Ammuqa

Ammuqa was a Palestinian village, located five kilometres northeast of Safed.-History:Known locally for its seven springs, Ammuqa also enjoyed renown as the site of the sepulchre of Jonathan ben Uzziel...

Arab al-Shamalina

Arab al-Shamalina also known as Khirbat Abu Zayna was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948 under Operation Matate , a sub operation of Operation Yiftach...

Arab al-Zubayd

Arab al-Zubayd was a Palestinian village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948, when the villagers fled on hearing the intentions of The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach...

Ayn al-Zaytun Baysamun

Baysamun

Baysamun was a small Palestinian Arab village, located northeast of Safad. In 1945, it had a population of 20. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion in Operation Yiftach....

Biriyya

Biriyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 2, 1948 by The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located northeast of Safad...

al-Butayha

Al-Butayha

Al-Butayha was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Matate. It was located 13 km southeast of Safad, quarter of a mile east of the Jordan River...

al-Buwayziyya

Al-Buwayziyya

Al-Buwayziyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 11, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 22 km northeast of Safad....

Dallata

Dallata was a Palestinian Arab village, located on a hilltop north of Safad. Constructed upon an ancient site, it was known to the Crusaders as Deleha. Dallata was included in the late 16th century Ottoman census and British censuses of the 20th century...

al-Dawwara

Al-Dawwara

Al-Dawwara was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach...

Dayshum

Dayshum was a Palestinian village, depopulated in 30 October 1948 by the Sheva Brigade of Israeli paramilitary force Palmach in an offensive called Operation Hiram, where the village has been completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind...

al-Dirbashiyya

Al-Dirbashiyya

Al-Dirbashiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 10, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 20 km northeast of Safad in the Hula Valley, bordering Hula...

al-Dirdara

Al-Dirdara

Al-Dirdara was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948 under Operation Yiftach. It was located 13 km east of Safad.In 1945 it had a population of 100....

Fara

Fara, Safad

Fara was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 30, 1948 under Operation Hiram. It was located 11.5 km north of Safad on the Wadi al-Fara....

al-Farradiyya Fir'im

Fir'im

Fir'im was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad that was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine war. It was first attacked during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 2, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion during Operation Yiftach. In 1945 the population had...

Ghabbatiyya

Ghabbatiyya was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 30, 1948 under Operation Hiram. It was located 12 km northwest of Safad.In 1945 it had a population of 60 people.-History:...

Ghuraba

Ghuraba was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 28, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 22 km northeast of Safad.In 1945 it had a population of 220....

al-Hamra'

Al-Hamra'

Al-Hamra' was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 24.5 km northeast of Safad, 1 km northwest of Wadi...

Harrawi

Harrawi was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 25, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 18 km northeast of Safad....

Hunin al-Husayniyya

Al-Husayniyya

Al-Husayniyya was a Palestinian village, depopulated in 1948.On the 13th of May 1948, Haganah paramilitary forces committed a crime by killing more than 30 children and women, which lead to the rest of people living in the village to flee and seek shelter in Lebanon and Syria.-Location:The...

Jahula

Jahula was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 1, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 11 km northeast of Safad....

al-Ja'una

Al-Ja'una

Al-Ja'una or Ja'ouna , was a Palestinian village situated in Galilee on the slopes of Mount Canaan near al-Houleh Plateau, overlooking the Jordan Valley. The village lay on a beautiful hill side 450–500 meters above sea level, 5 kilometers east of Safad near a major road connecting Safad with...

Jubb Yusuf

Jubb Yusuf was a Palestinian village depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.Situated in rocky terrain northwest of Lake Tiberias, the village was associated with a nearby well, Jubb Yussef , which was the site of a khan or caravan stopping place for centuries.-History:Under the Ottoman Empire,...

Kafr Bir'im

Kafr Bir'im, also Kefr Berem , was an Arab Christian village in Palestine located south of the Lebanese border and northwest of Safed. The village was situated above sea level, with a church overlooking it at an elevation of . The church was built on the ruins of an older church destroyed in an...

al-Khalisa

Al-Khalisa

Al-Khalisa was a Palestinian Arab village situated on a low hill on the northwestern edge of the Hula Valley of over 1,800 located north of Safad.-History:...

Khan al-Duwayr

Khan al-Duwayr was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. 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....

Karraza, Khirbat

Karraza, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 8.5 km southeast of Safad.-History:Khirbat Karraza was a...

al-Khisas

Al-Khisas

Al-Khisas was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad in Mandate Palestine.-Geography:Al-Khisas was located north northeast of Safad upon a natural terrace about wide. The terrace was formed thousands of years earlier after ancient Lake al-Hula receded...

Khiyam al-Walid

Khiyam al-Walid was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad located northeast of Safad along the Syrian border. It was on situated on a hill above sea level on the eastern edge of the Hula Valley. In 1945, there were 280 predominantly Muslim inhabitants...

Kirad al-Baqqara

Kirad al-Baqqara was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 22, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach...

Kirad al-Ghannama

Kirad al-Ghannama was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 22, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 11 km northeast of Safad...

Lazzaza

Lazzaza was a Palestinian Arab village of 230 in the northern Hula Valley next to the Hasbani River, located northwest of Safad.-History:Travelers in the nineteenth century describe Lazzaza, while under Ottoman rule, as a village of 70 people built of adobe bricks and situated on a plain near a...

Madahil

Madahil was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach...

al-Malikiyya

Al-Malikiyya

al-Malikiyya was a Lebanese village located in the Jabal Amil district of Lebanon. In a 1920s census, the village was registered as Lebanon. It was later placed under the British Mandate of Palestine. Its population was Metawali Shiite, and were originally considered to be from Lebanon...

Mallaha

Mallaha was a Palestinian Arab village, located northeast of Safed, on the highway between the latter and Tiberias. 'Ain Mallaha is the local Arabic name for a spring that served as the water source for the village inhabitants throughout the ages...

al-Manshiyya

Al-Manshiyya, Safad

Al-Manshiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District 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....

al-Mansura

Al-Mansura, Safad

Al-Mansura was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948 under Operation Yiftach. It was located 31 km northeast of Safad on the Banyas River. In 1945 it had a population of 360....

Mansurat al-Khayt

Mansurat al-Khayt was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on January 18, 1948. It was located 11.5 km east of Safad, 1 km west of the Jordan River....

Marus

Marus was a Palestinian village 7 km northeast of Safad in the District of Safad, that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war during the Israeli military operation Operation Hiram by the Israeli attacking brigade Sheva' Brigade....

Mirun al-Muftakhira

Al-Muftakhira

Al-Muftakhira was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 16, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 25.5 km northeast of Safad....

Mughr al-Khayt

Mughr al-Khayt was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 2, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 4.5 km northeast of Safad. In 1945 it had a population of...

al-Muntar, Khirbat

Al-Muntar, Khirbat

Al-Muntar, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War by Palmach's First Battalion and 'Oded Brigade of Operation Yiftach after resistance by the Syrian Army. It was located 8.5 km east of Safad.In the 19th century, Turkish...

al-Nabi Yusha'

Al-Nabi Yusha'

-History:During the late eighteenth century, a family known as al-GhuI established the shrine for Nabi Yusha’ , which included a mosque and a building for visitors, as an act of devotion...

al-Na'ima

Al-Na'ima

Al-Na'ima was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 14, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach...

Qabba'a

Qabba'a was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 26, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 6 km northeast of Safad....

Qadas

Qadas was a Lebanese village located 17 kilometers northeast of Safad that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. One of seven Shiite Muslim villages called Metawalis that fell within the boundaries of British Mandate Palestine, Qadas lay adjacent to Nebi Yusha, near the tel of the...

Qaddita

Qaddita 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 fleeing to nearby Akbara where they live as internally displaced Palestinians and others to refugee camps in Lebanon or...

Qaytiyya

Qaytiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 19, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 28 km northeast of Safad, bordering both the Hasibani and the Dan Rivers.In 1945, the village had a...

al-Qudayriyya

Al-Qudayriyya

Al-Qudayriyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948 by the Haganah and the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Matate, a sub-operation of Operation Yiftach. It was located 6.5 km south...

al-Ras al-Ahmar

Al-Ras al-Ahmar

Al-Ras al-Ahmar was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 30, 1948 by the Sheva' Brigade during Operation Hiram. It was located 8.5 km north of Safad....

Sabalan

Sabalan, Safad

Sabalan was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad, located northwest of Safad. It stood at an elevation of above sea level overlooking the Druze village of Hurfeish. In 1945, Sabalan had a population of 70. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War.-History:In the 19th...

Safsaf

Safsaf was a Palestinian village located 9 kilometres northwest of Safed, present day Israel. Its villagers fled to Lebanon after the Safsaf massacre in October 1948, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-History:The village was called Safsofa in Roman times...

Saliha

Saliha is one of the Seven Lebanese Villages that was later transferred to the British Mandate of Palestine. Originally part of the Jabal Amel district of South Lebanon, this term has been historically used to denote the homeland of Shi'a Muslims in Southern Lebanon...

al-Salihiyya

Al-Salihiyya

Al-Salihiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 25 km northeast of Safad, situated on the intersection of the Jordan River and Wadi Tur'an.In...

al-Sammu'i

Al-Sammu'i

Al-Sammu'i was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948 under Operation Hiram. It was located 4 km west of Safad....

al-Sanbariyya

Al-Sanbariyya

Al-Sanbariyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948 by Palmach's First Battalion under Operation Yiftach...

Sa'sa'

Sa'sa was a Palestinian village, located 12 kilometres northwest of Safed that was depopulated by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war...

al-Shawka al-Tahta

Al-Shawka al-Tahta

Al-Shawka al-Tahta was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 14, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach...

al-Shuna

Al-Shuna

Al-Shuna was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 6 km south of Safad, overlooking the deep gorge of Wadi al-'Amud.In...

Taytaba

Taytaba was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948 under Operation Hiram. It was located 5 km north of Safad overlooking Wadi Taytaba, a tributary of Wadi Waqqas.In 1945, the village had a...

Tulayl

Tulayl was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad located northeast of Safad. It was situated on small, sandy hill on the southwestern shore of Lake Hula, near the merging of two wadis. Together with the nearby village of al-Husayniyya, it had a population of 340 in 1945...

al-'Ulmaniyya

Al-'Ulmaniyya

Al-'Ulmaniyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 14.5 km northeast of Safad.A 1596 census revealed a...

al-'Urayfiyya

Al-'Urayfiyya

Al-'Urayfiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 21.5 km northeast of Safad. The village has been mostly...

al-Wayziyya

Al-Wayziyya

Al-Wayziyya was a former Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 8.5 km northeast of Safad.In 1945, the village had a...

Yarda, Safad

Yarda was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 10.5 km northeast of Safad. The area is now part of the State of...

al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta

Al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta

Al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War. The village was located 1 km west of Safad and covered an area of 16,304 dunums.-Bibliography:...

al-Zanghariyya

Al-Zanghariyya

Al-Zanghariyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948 under Operation Matate. It was located 8.5 km southeast of Safad, near Wadi al-Ghara. The village was later burned and destroyed on...

al-Zawiya al-Zuq al-Fawqani

Al-Zuq al-Fawqani

Al-Zuq al-Fawqani was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 21, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 32 km southeast of Safad....

al-Zuq al-Tahtani

Al-Zuq al-Tahtani

Al-Zuq al-Tahtani was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 11, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 30 km northeast of Safad.In 1945, the village had a total...

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