Ghost Towns
💥 War & expulsion

Al-'Abisiyya

Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
830
Coordinates
33.199, 35.633
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Why it was abandoned

💥 War & expulsion

Detected automatically from the text: It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 29, 1948, by The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach.

History

Al-'Abisiyya or al-'Absiyya, was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 29, 1948, by The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 28.5 km northeast of Safad near to the Banyas River which the village relied on for irrigation.

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