Kafr 'Ana
Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine
- Abandoned
- 1948
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 2,800
- Coordinates
- 32.027, 34.868
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: A number of Palestinian villagers were killed and the rest fled or were expelled, whereafter the village was destroyed.
History
Kafr 'Ana was a Palestinian town located 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) east of Jaffa, built on the ancient site of Ono. In 1945, the town had an estimated population of 2,800 Arabs and 220 Jews. The village was captured by the Haganah in April during the 1948 Palestine war. A number of Palestinian villagers were killed and the rest fled or were expelled, whereafter the village was destroyed. Today, the old village site lies within the modern Israeli city of Or Yehuda.