Al-Muftakhira Explained

Al-Muftakhira
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Mandatory Palestine
Pushpin Mapsize:200
Coordinates:33.1586°N 35.6397°W
Grid Name:Palestine grid
Grid Position:209/284
Subdivision Type:Geopolitical entity
Subdivision Name:Mandatory Palestine
Subdivision Type1:Subdistrict
Subdivision Name1:Safad
Established Title1:Date of depopulation
Established Date1:May 16, 1948[1]
Established Title2:Repopulated dates
Population As Of:1945
Population Total:350[2] [3]
Blank Name Sec1:Cause(s) of depopulation
Blank Info Sec1:Fear of being caught up in the fighting
Blank3 Name Sec1:Current Localities
Blank3 Info Sec1:Shamir, Israel[4]

Al-Muftakhira was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated in the 1948 War on May 16, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion during Operation Yiftach. It was located 25.5 km northeast of Safad.

In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 350.[2] [3]

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Notes and References

  1. Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #16. Also gives cause 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. 70
  4. Khalidi, 1992, p.478