Sufla

Sufla
سفلى
Etymology: the low ground[1]
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Sufla is located in Mandatory Palestine
Sufla
Sufla
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°44′5″N 35°2′28″E / 31.73472°N 35.04111°E / 31.73472; 35.04111
Palestine grid153/126
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJerusalem
Date of depopulationOctober 19, 1948[4]
Area
 • Total2,061 dunams (2.061 km2 or 509 acres)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total60[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces

Sufla (Arabic: سفلى) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on October 19, 1948, by the Sixth Battalion of the Harel Brigade under Operation Ha-Har. It was located 18.5 km west of Jerusalem.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 329
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 25
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 58
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, village #340. Also gives cause of depopulation.