Mansurat al-Khayt
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Mansurat al-Khayt 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
Arab people, also known as Arabs , are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds, with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing...

 village in the District of Safad
District of Safad
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, the district disintegrated.-Depopulated settlements:...

. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine
1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine
The 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine lasted from 30 November 1947, the date of the United Nations vote in favour of the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine and the UN Partition Plan, to the termination of the British Mandate itself on 14 May 1948.This period constitutes the...

 on January 18, 1948. It was located 11.5 km east of Safad, 1 km west of the Jordan River.

In 1945, the village had a population of 200. The village was also known by Mansurat al-Hula to distinguish it from al-Mansura, Safad
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....

and had a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh Mansur from which the village was named after.
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