Al-Qudayriyya

Al-Qudayriyya
القديرية
Qudeiriya, al-[1]
Village
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Al-Qudayriyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Qudayriyya
Al-Qudayriyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°54′17″N 35°30′33″E / 32.90472°N 35.50917°E / 32.90472; 35.50917
Palestine grid197/256
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 4, 1948[1]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total390[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary causeExpulsion by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesKahal[4]

Al-Qudayriyya (Arabic: القديرية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948, by the Haganah and the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Matate, a sub-operation of Operation Yiftach. It was located 6.5 km south of Safad, situated 1 km east of Wadi al-'Amud.

  1. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #74. Also gives causes of depopulation.
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 487

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