Al-Na'ima

Al-Na'ima

الناعمة
Al-Na'ima الناعمة
	Etymology: The soft soil
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Na'ima (click the buttons)
	Al-Na'ima Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 33°11′17″N 35°35′42″E / 33.18806°N 35.59500°E
Palestine grid	206/288
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Safad
Date of depopulation	May 14, 1948
Area
• Total	7,155 dunams (7.155 km2 or 2.763 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	1,240 (1,340 Arabs and 210 Jews)
Cause(s) of depopulation	Influence of nearby town's fall
Current Localities	Neot Mordechai, Kefar Blum, and Beyt Hillel

Al-Na'ima (Arabic: الناعمة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine located 26 kilometres (16 mi) northeast of Safad, near the al-Hula Plain. The settlement was depopulated during the 1947-1948 civil war on May 14, 1948 by the Israeli Palmach's First Battalion as part of Operation Yiftach.

In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 1,240 of whom 210 were Jews.^[2]

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 31
^ ^a ^b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference Hadawi70 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #19. Also gives cause of depopulation.
^ ^a ^b ^c Khalidi, 1992, p. 482

Al-Na'ima الناعمة
Etymology: The soft soil^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Na'ima (click the buttons)
Al-Na'ima Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°11′17″N 35°35′42″E / 33.18806°N 35.59500°E / 33.18806; 35.59500
Palestine grid	206/288
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Safad
Date of depopulation	May 14, 1948^[4]
Area ^[3]
• Total	7,155 dunams (7.155 km² or 2.763 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	1,240 (1,340 Arabs and 210 Jews)^[2]^[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Influence of nearby town's fall
Current Localities	Neot Mordechai,^[5] Kefar Blum,^[5] and Beyt Hillel^[5]