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💥 War & expulsion

Khirbat al-Wa'ra al-Sawda'

Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
1,870
Coordinates
32.834, 35.481
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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 18, 1948.

History

Khirbat al-Wa'ra al-Sawda' was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict. In 1945, the village had a population of 1,870 Arabs. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 18, 1948. It was located 7.5 km northeast of Tiberias. Some of the villagers fled to Syria while others migrated to the central Galilee.

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