Kirad al-Baqqara
كراد البقارة | |
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Village | |
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  Kirad al-Baqqara Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°01′07″N 35°36′04″E / 33.01861°N 35.60111°E | |
| Palestine grid | 206/269 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | April 22, 1948[3] |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 360[1][2] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
| Current Localities | Gadot and Mishmar ha-Yarden |
Kirad al-Baqqara (Arabic: كراد البقارة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 22, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 11 km northwest of Safad and Wadi Mushayrifa ran between the two Kirad villages (al-Ghannama and al-Baqqara).
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p.70
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #43. Also gives cause of depopulation. Morris notes that it was later resettled, followed by expulsion in 1956.
- ^ | unit_pref = dunam | area_total_dunam = 2,021Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p.119