Ghost Towns
💥 War & expulsion

Al-Dawwara

Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
700
Coordinates
33.179, 35.634
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Why it was abandoned

💥 War & expulsion

Detected automatically from the text: It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach.

History

Al-Dawwara was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 27 km northeast of Safad, bordering three rivers that flowed into lake al-Hula: the al-Hasbani, Banyas, and Dan rivers.

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