Al-Muftakhira

Al-Muftakhira
Village
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Al-Muftakhira Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°09′31″N 35°38′23″E
Palestine grid	209/284
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Safad
Date of depopulation	May 16, 1948[3]
Population  (1945)
• Total	350[1][2]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Fear of being caught up in the fighting
Current Localities	Shamir, Israel[4]

Al-Muftakhira was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated in the 1948 War on May 16, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion during Operation Yiftach. It was located 25.5 km northeast of Safad.

In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 350.[1][2]

References

1. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
2. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
3. Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #16. Also gives cause of depopulation.
4. Khalidi, 1992, p.478

Bibliography

• Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
• Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. Archived from the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
• Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains:The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
• Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
• Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.

External links

• Welcome To al-Muftakhira
• al-Muftakhira, Villages of Palestine
• al-Muftakhira, Zochrot