Al-Nahr

al-Nahr
النهر
an-Nahr
Etymology: In 1881, the place was named Kahweh, meaning "the coffee shop"[1]
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al-Nahr is located in Mandatory Palestine
al-Nahr
al-Nahr
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°00′26″N 35°08′29″E / 33.00722°N 35.14139°E / 33.00722; 35.14139
Palestine grid163/268
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictAcre
Date of depopulation21 May 1948[4]
Area
 • Total5,261 dunams (5.261 km2 or 2.031 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total610[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesBen Ami,[5][6] Kabri[6]

al-Nahr (Arabic: النهر), was a Palestinian village 14 km (8.7 mi) northeast of Acre. It was depopulated in May 1948 after a military assault carried out by the Carmeli Brigade as part of the Israel Defense Forces's Operation Ben-Ami. Immediately after the assault, the village of al-Nahr was razed.[7][8]

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 43
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 41
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #82
  5. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxi village 52
  6. ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 28
  7. ^ Morris, 2004, p. 253
  8. ^ Benvenisti, 2000, pp. 138-139