Kafra was a Palestinian

Palestinian people

The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...

 Arab

Arab

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 village located 10.5 kilometres north of Baysan. Built along both sides of the Wadi

Wadi

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 Kafra, the village had been known by this name since at least the time of the Crusades

Crusades

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. The population of the village in 1922 was 273, rising to an estimated 499 in 1948. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Palestine War

1948 Palestine war

The 1948 Palestine war refers to the events in the British Mandate of Palestine between the United Nations vote on the partition plan on November 30, 1947, to the end of the first Arab-Israeli war on July 20, 1949.The war is divided into two phases:...

on May 16, 1948.