Al-Shuna
الشونة | |
|---|---|
Village | |
| Etymology: Kŭlảt esh Shûneh, the castle of the granary[1] | |
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  Al-Shuna Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°54′30″N 35°29′13″E / 32.90833°N 35.48694°E | |
| Palestine grid | 195/257 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | "Not known"[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3,660 dunams (3.66 km2 or 1.41 sq mi) |
| Population (1945[3]) | |
| • Total | 170[2][3] |
Al-Shuna (Arabic: الشونة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was ethnically cleansed and 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.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 130
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 11
- ^ 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
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #72. Gives both date and cause of depopulation as "Not known"
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