Al-Kasayir ( ar, خربة الكساير, he, ח'ירבת אל-קסאייר) was a
Palestinian Arab
Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...
village in the
Haifa Subdistrict, located 13 km east of
Haifa
Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...
. It was depopulated during the
1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 16, 1948, under the
Battle of Mishmar HaEmek.
History
Many inhabitants were Muslim Arabs who traced their origins to North Africa.
In the
1945 statistics Khirbat Al-Kasayir was counted among
Shefa-'Amr suburbs, and it was noted with a population of 290 Muslims.
[Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p]
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142
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References
Bibliography
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External links
Khirbat al-Kasair
Zochrot
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 5:
IAAWikimedia commons
Arab villages depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
District of Haifa
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