Ghost Towns
💥 War & expulsion

Al-'Urayfiyya

Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
33.110, 35.648
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Why it was abandoned

💥 War & expulsion

Detected automatically from the text: It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach.

History

Al-'Urayfiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 21.5 km northeast of Safad. The village has been mostly destroyed with the exception of the remains of a water mill and masonry channel.

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