Al-Husayniyya
الحسينية Al-Husayniyya | |
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Village | |
Etymology: Khirbat Al-Husayniyya: The ruin of el Hasanîyeh, named after Hasan ibn Ali[1] | |
Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
Coordinates: 33°02′23″N 35°34′58″E / 33.03972°N 35.58278°E | |
Palestine grid | 204/271 |
Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
Subdistrict | Safad |
Date of depopulation | 21 April 1948[4] |
Area | |
• Total | 5,324 dunams (5.324 km2 or 2.056 sq mi) |
Population (1945) | |
• Total | 340 (together with Tulayl)[2][3] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
Current Localities | Chulata, 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]
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