Khirbat al-Majdal | |
Native Name: | خربة المجدل |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Mandatory Palestine |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
Coordinates: | 32.3942°N 34.9375°W |
Grid Name: | Palestine grid |
Grid Position: | 149/201 |
Subdivision Type: | Geopolitical entity |
Subdivision Name: | Mandatory Palestine |
Subdivision Type1: | Subdistrict |
Subdivision Name1: | Tulkarm |
Established Title1: | Date of depopulation |
Established Title2: | Repopulated dates |
Blank Name Sec1: | Cause(s) of depopulation |
Khirbat al-Majdal was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 1, 1948, under Operation Coastal Clearing. It was located 10 km northwest of Tulkarm.
Khirbat al-Majdal was located on the Crusader place called Megedallum. The site had a well, around which bedouin gradually settled.[1]
The village had a shrine for a local sage known by al-Shaykh Abdallah. Today, Sde Yitzhaq is located near the village lands, but on land belonging to Raml Zayta.[2]