Al-Manshiyya ( ar, المنشية) was a
Palestinian Arab
The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...
village in the
Safad Subdistrict (located 30 km northeast of
Safad) that was depopulated by the Palmach's First Battalion of
Operation Yiftach
Operation Yiftach ( he, מבצע יפתח, ''Mivtza Yiftah'') was a Palmach offensive carried out between 28 April and 23 May 1948. The objectives were to capture Safed and to secure the eastern Galilee before the British Mandate ended on 14 May ...
during the
1948 War
The 1948 Palestine war was fought in the territory of what had been, at the start of the war, British-ruled Mandatory Palestine. It is known in Israel as the War of Independence ( he, מלחמת העצמאות, ''Milkhemet Ha'Atzma'ut'') and ...
on May 24, 1948.
[Khalidi, 1992, p. 473]
History
In 1948 it had a population of 140. 1948 was also the year the village was destroyed and depopulated. It is now mainly desert with multiple abandoned buildings.
References
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External links
Welcome To al-Manshiyya
Villages of Palestine
al-Manshiyya (Safed)
Zochrot
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2:
IAAWikimedia commons
Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
District of Safad
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