Al-Na'ima

Al-Na'ima
الناعمة
Etymology: The soft soil[1]
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Al-Na'ima is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Na'ima
Al-Na'ima
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°11′17″N 35°35′42″E / 33.18806°N 35.59500°E / 33.18806; 35.59500
Palestine grid206/288
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 14, 1948[4]
Area
[3]
 • Total
7,155 dunams (7.155 km2 or 2.763 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
1,240 (1,340 Arabs and 210 Jews)[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationInfluence of nearby town's fall
Current LocalitiesNeot Mordechai,[5] Kefar Blum,[5] and Beyt Hillel[5]

Al-Na'ima (Arabic: الناعمة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine located 26 kilometres (16 mi) northeast of Safad, near the al-Hula Plain. The settlement was depopulated during the 1947-1948 civil war on May 14, 1948 by the Israeli Palmach's First Battalion as part of Operation Yiftach.

In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 1,240 of whom 210 were Jews.[2]

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 31
  2. ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Hadawi70 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #19. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  5. ^ a b c Khalidi, 1992, p. 482