Al-Safiriyya
السافريّة | |
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| Etymology: from a personal name [1] | |
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  Al-Safiriyya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°59′36″N 34°51′04″E / 31.99333°N 34.85111°E | |
| Palestine grid | 135/155 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Jaffa |
| Date of depopulation | Not known[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 12,842 dunams (12.842 km2 or 4.958 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 3,070[2][3] |
| Current Localities | Tzafria,[5] Kfar Chabad,[5] Ahi'ezer[5] Tochelet[5] Sharir[6] Shafrir (at the site of what is now Kfar Chabad) has been absorbed in the previous, and in the suburbs of Rishon LeZion[5] |
Al-Safiriyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during Operation Hametz in the 1948 Palestine War on May 20, 1948.[5] It was located 11 km east of Jaffa, 1.5 km west of Ben Gurion Airport.
Starting in 1949, the ruins of the site were overbuilt by the Israeli town of Kfar Chabad.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 217
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 28
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 53
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #220. Morris gives both cause and date of depopulation as "not known".
- ^ a b c d e f Khalidi, 1992, p. 253
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxii, settlement #113