Ghost Towns
💥 War & expulsion

Al-Shuna

Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
32.908, 35.487
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Why it was abandoned

💥 War & expulsion

Detected automatically from the text: It was ethnically cleansed and depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach.

History

Al-Shuna was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was ethnically cleansed and depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 6 km south of Safad, overlooking the deep gorge of Wadi al-'Amud.

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