Ghost Towns
💥 War & expulsion

Kirad al-Baqqara

Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
360
Coordinates
33.018, 35.601
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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 22, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach.

History

Kirad al-Baqqara was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 22, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 11 km northwest of Safad and Wadi Mushayrifa ran between the two Kirad villages.

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