Harrawi

Harrawi
هرّاوي/عرب الحمدون
Village
Keren Naftali lookout
Keren Naftali lookout
Etymology: Kh. Harrah, the ruin of Harreh,from personal name.[1]
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Harrawi is located in Mandatory Palestine
Harrawi
Harrawi
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°5′27″N 35°33′47″E / 33.09083°N 35.56306°E / 33.09083; 35.56306
Palestine grid202/277
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulation1948[3]
Population
 (1931)
 • Total148[2]

Harrawi (Arabic: هرّاوي/عرب الحمدون) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 25, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 18 km northeast of Safad.

In 1948, it had a population of 290.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 83
  2. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 106
  3. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #392. Gives date and cause of depopulation as "Not known"

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