Biriyya
Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 240
- Coordinates
- 32.980, 35.498
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 2, 1948, by The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach.
History
Biriyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 2, 1948, by The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 1.5 kilometres (0.9 mi) northeast of Safad. Today the Israeli moshav of Birya includes the village site.