Arab al-Zubayd
عرب الزبيد 'Arab Zubeih[1] | |
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Village | |
| Etymology: The Zubeid Arabs[2] | |
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  Arab al-Zubayd Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°4′44″N 35°34′03″E / 33.07889°N 35.56750°E | |
| Palestine grid | 203/276 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | April 20, 1948[1] |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 890[3][4] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
Arab al-Zubayd was a Palestinian village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948, when the villagers fled on hearing the intentions of The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach.[5] It was located 15 km northeast of Safad, near the al-Mutilla-Safad—Tiberias highway.[5]
- ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #31. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 67
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70
- ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p.435.