Al-Husayniyya, Safad

Al-Husayniyya
الحسينية
Al-Husayniyya
Village
Etymology: Khirbat Al-Husayniyya: The ruin of el Hasanîyeh, named after Hasan ibn Ali[1]
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Al-Husayniyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Husayniyya
Al-Husayniyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°02′23″N 35°34′58″E / 33.03972°N 35.58278°E / 33.03972; 35.58278
Palestine grid204/271
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulation21 April 1948[4]
Area
 • Total5,324 dunams (5.324 km2 or 2.056 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total340 (together with Tulayl)[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationInfluence of nearby town's fall
Current LocalitiesChulata, Sde Eliezer[5]

Al-Husayniyya (Arabic: الحسينية) was a Palestinian village, depopulated in 1948.

On 13 May 1948, Haganah paramilitary forces committed a crime by killing more than 30 children and women, which led the rest of the people living in the village to flee and seek shelter in Lebanon and Syria.[6]

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 83
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 11
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine, includes Tuleil
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #36. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  5. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 457
  6. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 456

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