Ghost Towns
💥 War & expulsion

Qaytiyya

Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
940
Coordinates
33.200, 35.613
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Why it was abandoned

💥 War & expulsion

Detected automatically from the text: It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 19, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach.

History

Qaytiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 19, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 28 km northeast of Safad, bordering both the Hasibani and the Dan Rivers.

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