Al-Butayha

Al-Butayha البطيحة
Village
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Al-Butayha Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°54′59″N 35°37′28″E / 32.91639°N 35.62444°E / 32.91639; 35.62444
Palestine grid	208/257
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Safad
Date of depopulation	May 4, 1948
Area
• Total	16,690 dunams (16.69 km2 or 6.44 sq mi)
Population  (1945)
• Total	650[1]
Current Localities	Almagor[2]

Al-Butayha (Arabic: البطيحة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion during Operation Matateh. It was located 13 km southeast of Safad, quarter of a mile east of the Jordan River, a little northeast of the northern tip of the Sea of Galilee. Many of the inhabitants were forced into Syria.