Dayshum

Dayshum
ديشوم
Dayshum, Deishum
Ruins of Dayshum
Ruins of Dayshum
Etymology: personal name[1]
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Dayshum is located in Mandatory Palestine
Dayshum
Dayshum
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°04′42″N 35°30′34″E / 33.07833°N 35.50944°E / 33.07833; 35.50944
Palestine grid197/276
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulation30 October 1948[4]
Area
 • Total23,044 dunams (23.044 km2 or 8.897 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total590[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesDishon[5][6]

Dayshum (Arabic: ديشوم, romanizedDayshūm), also known by its variant name Dayshun was a Palestinian village, depopulated on 30 October 1948 by the Sheva Brigade of Israeli paramilitary force Palmach in an offensive called Operation Hiram, where the village has been destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 71
  2. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69
  3. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #32. Also gives cause of depopulation
  5. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxii, settlement #131. Settlement date uncertain, according to Morris, but possibly 1949 (re-established 1953)
  6. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 446

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