Al-Butayha
Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 32.916, 35.623
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion during Operation Matateh.
History
Al-Butayha 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 Palmach's First Battalion during Operation Matateh. It was located 13 km southeast of Safad, quarter of a mile east of the Jordan River, a little northeast of the northern tip of the Sea of Galilee. Many of the inhabitants were forced into Syria.