Ghost Towns
💥 War & expulsion

Al-Safiriyya

Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
31.993, 34.851
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Why it was abandoned

💥 War & expulsion

Detected automatically from the text: It was depopulated during Operation Hametz in the 1948 Palestine War on May 20, 1948.

History

Al-Safiriyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during Operation Hametz in the 1948 Palestine War on May 20, 1948. It was located 11 km east of Jaffa, 1.5 km west of Ben Gurion Airport.

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