Al-Kasayir
خربة الكساير
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Al-Kasayir is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Kasayir
Al-Kasayir
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°47′36″N 35°08′19″E / 32.79333°N 35.13861°E / 32.79333; 35.13861
Palestine grid163/244
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictHaifa
Date of depopulationmid-April, 1948[1]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total290
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces

Al-Kasayir (Arabic: خربة الكساير, Hebrew: ח'ירבת אל-קסאייר) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict, located 13 km east of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 16, 1948, under the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek.

History

Many inhabitants were Muslim Arabs who traced their origins to North Africa.[citation needed]

In the 1945 statistics Khirbat Al-Kasayir was counted among Shefa-'Amr suburbs, and it was noted with a population of 290 Muslims.[2][3][4][5]

References

  1. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #383. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  2. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 15
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 49
  4. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 92
  5. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 142

Bibliography

  • Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  • Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.

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Palestinian Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus by subdistrict
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