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]