Al-Dawwara

Al-Dawwara
الدوّارة
Village
Al-Dawwara, 1946
Al-Dawwara, 1946
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Al-Dawwara is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Dawwara
Al-Dawwara
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°10′43″N 35°38′02″E / 33.17861°N 35.63389°E / 33.17861; 35.63389
Palestine grid209/287
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 25, 1948[3]
Area
[2]
 • Total2,753 dunams (2.753 km2 or 1.063 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total700[1][2]
Cause(s) of depopulationWhispering campaign
Current Localities‘Amir, Sde Nehemia

Al-Dawwara (Arabic: الدوّارة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 27 km northeast of Safad, bordering three rivers that flowed into lake al-Hula: the al-Hasbani, Banyas, and Dan rivers.

In 1945 the village had a population of 1,100 (this figure included 400 Jewish residents of the Kibbutzim ‘Amir and Sde Nehemia).

  1. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
  2. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #14. Also gives causes of depopulation.