al-Nahr
النهر an-Nahr | |
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| Etymology: In 1881, the place was named Kahweh, meaning "the coffee shop"[1] | |
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  al-Nahr Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°00′26″N 35°08′29″E / 33.00722°N 35.14139°E | |
| Palestine grid | 163/268 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Acre |
| Date of depopulation | 21 May 1948[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5,261 dunams (5.261 km2 or 2.031 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 610[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Ben Ami,[5][6] Kabri[6] |
al-Nahr (Arabic: النهر), was a Palestinian village 14 km (8.7 mi) northeast of Acre. It was depopulated in May 1948 after a military assault carried out by the Carmeli Brigade as part of the Israel Defense Forces's Operation Ben-Ami. Immediately after the assault, the village of al-Nahr was razed.[7][8]
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 43
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 41
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #82
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxi village 52
- ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 28
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. 253
- ^ Benvenisti, 2000, pp. 138-139