Ghost Towns
💥 War & expulsion

Kirad al-Ghannama

Vanished settlement · Israel

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
350
Coordinates
33.022, 35.587
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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-Ghannama 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 northeast of Safad. Wadi Mushayrifa ran between the two Kirad villages and Wadi Waqqas supplied the village with its water requirements. The village contained the following khirbas: Khirbat Nijmat al-Subh, Tall al-Qadah, and Tall al-Safa.

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