Al-Dirbashiyya

Al-Dirbashiyya
الدرباشية
Darbashiya, al[1]
Village
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Al-Dirbashiyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Dirbashiyya
Al-Dirbashiyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°05′20″N 35°38′49″E / 33.08889°N 35.64694°E / 33.08889; 35.64694
Palestine grid210/277
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay, 1948[1]
Area
[3]
 • Total
2,883 dunams (2.883 km2 or 1.113 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
310[2][3]

Al-Dirbashiyya (Arabic: الدرباشية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 10, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 20 km northeast of Safad in the Hula Valley, bordering Hula Lake.

  1. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #29. Gives date and cause of depopulation with an "?"
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine