Al-Muftakhira | |
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Village | |
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  Al-Muftakhira Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°09′31″N 35°38′23″E / 33.15861°N 35.63972°E | |
| Palestine grid | 209/284 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | May 16, 1948[3] |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 350[1][2] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
| Current Localities | Shamir, Israel[4] |
Al-Muftakhira was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated in the 1948 War on May 16, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion during Operation Yiftach. It was located 25.5 km northeast of Safad.
In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 350.[1][2]
- ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #16. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p.478