Kafra, Baysan

Kafra

كفرة
Kafra كفرة
	Kafra well, ca 1920
	Etymology: "The village"
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map
	Kafra Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 32°35′35″N 35°29′27″E / 32.59306°N 35.49083°E
Palestine grid	196/222
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Baysan
Date of depopulation	May 16, 1948
Area
• Total	9,172 dunams (9.172 km2 or 3.541 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	430
Cause(s) of depopulation	Influence of nearby town's fall

Kafra (Arabic: كفرة), was a Palestinian Arab village located 10.5 kilometres north of Baysan. Built along both sides of the Wadi Kafra, the village had been known by this name since at least the time of the Crusades.^[5] It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Palestine War on May 16, 1948.^[4]

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 162
^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 6
^ ^a ^b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 43
^ ^a ^b Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #118. Also gives cause of depopulation
^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 52

Kafra كفرة
Kafra well, ca 1920
Etymology: "The village"^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map
Kafra Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°35′35″N 35°29′27″E / 32.59306°N 35.49083°E / 32.59306; 35.49083
Palestine grid	196/222
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Baysan
Date of depopulation	May 16, 1948^[4]
Area ^[3]
• Total	9,172 dunams (9.172 km² or 3.541 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	430^[2]^[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Influence of nearby town's fall