Al-Qudayriyya
القديرية Qudeiriya, al-[1] | |
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Village | |
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  Al-Qudayriyya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°54′17″N 35°30′33″E / 32.90472°N 35.50917°E | |
| Palestine grid | 197/256 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | May 4, 1948[1] |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 390[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Secondary cause | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Kahal[4] |
Al-Qudayriyya (Arabic: القديرية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948, by the Haganah and the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Matate, a sub-operation of Operation Yiftach. It was located 6.5 km south of Safad, situated 1 km east of Wadi al-'Amud.
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described nearby Kh. en Nueiriyeh[5] as having "heaps of drafted masonry on the top of terraced hill, with a rock-cut well and three rock-cut wine-presses".[6] According to Khalidi, these were remains of Roman and Byzantine eras.
In the 1922 census of Palestine Qudairiyeh had a population of 194; all Muslim,[7] decreasing in the 1931 census to 72, still all Muslims, in a total of 14 houses.[8]
In the 1945 statistics the population was 390 Muslims,[2] with a total of 12,487 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[3] Of this, 2,029 dunums were used for cereals,[9] while 10,458 dunams were non-cultivable area.[10]
The village had a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh al-Rumi and the Khirbat al-Nuwayriyya is located in the village.[4]
The village was depopulate during Operation Matateh, on May 4, 1948.[11][12][13]
