Al-Hamra'

Al-Hamra'
الحمراء
Village
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Al-Hamra' is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Hamra'
Al-Hamra'
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°09′11″N 35°38′51″E / 33.15306°N 35.64750°E / 33.15306; 35.64750
Palestine grid210/284
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 1, 1948[1]
Cause(s) of depopulationFear of being caught up in the fighting
Secondary causeMilitary assault by Yishuv forces

Al-Hamra' (Arabic: الحمراء) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 24.5 km northeast of Safad, 1 km northwest of Wadi al-Dufayla.

  1. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #20. Also gives causes of depopulation.