Kafra, Baysan
Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 430
- Coordinates
- 32.593, 35.491
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: Palestinian village, depopulated in 1948
History
Kafra, was a Palestinian Arab village located 10.5 kilometres north of Baysan. Built along both sides of the Wadi Kafra, the village had been known by this name since at least the time of the Crusades. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Palestine War on May 16, 1948.