Kirad al-Baqqara

Kirad al-Baqqara
كراد البقارة
Village
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Kirad al-Baqqara is located in Mandatory Palestine
Kirad al-Baqqara
Kirad al-Baqqara
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°01′07″N 35°36′04″E / 33.01861°N 35.60111°E / 33.01861; 35.60111
Palestine grid206/269
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationApril 22, 1948[3]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total360[1][2]
Cause(s) of depopulationInfluence of nearby town's fall
Current LocalitiesGadot 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).

  1. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p.70
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
  3. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #43. Also gives cause of depopulation. Morris notes that it was later resettled, followed by expulsion in 1956.
  4. ^ | 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