Khiyam al-Walid
Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 280
- Coordinates
- 33.144, 35.654
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War.
History
Khiyam al-Walid was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict located 25.5 kilometers (15.8 mi) northeast of Safad along the Syrian border. It was on situated on a hill 150 meters (490 ft) above sea level on the eastern edge of the Hula Valley. In 1945, there were 280 predominantly Muslim inhabitants. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War.