Mansurat al-Khayt

See Mansura (disambiguation) for other sites with similar names.
Mansurat al-Khayt
منصورة الخيط
Mansurat al Kheit[1]
Village
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Mansurat al-Khayt is located in Mandatory Palestine
Mansurat al-Khayt
Mansurat al-Khayt
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°58′15″N 35°36′58″E / 32.97083°N 35.61611°E / 32.97083; 35.61611
Palestine grid207/264
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationJanuary 18, 1948[1]
Area
[3]
 • Total6,735 dunams (6.735 km2 or 2.600 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total200[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesKfar Hanassi?[4] However, Khalidi writes that it is on the land of Tuba[5]

Mansurat al-Khayt was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on January 18, 1948. It was located 11.5 km east of Safed, 1 km west of the Jordan River.

  1. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #59. Also gives cause of depopulation
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, settlement #13.
  5. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 475