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| Kirad al-Baqqara District of Safad كراد البقّارة - כיראד אל-בקארה Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
April 22, 1948
Distance from district center
11 (km) North West of Safad
Elevation from the sea
125 (meters)
Map location
See location number #53 on the map
Israeli military operation
Operation Yiftach (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)
Israeli attacking brigade
The Palmach's First Battalion
Exodus Cause
Influence of fall of, or exoduce from, neighboring town
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisThe village has been completely destroyed, and only the rubble of destroyed houses left behind.
Ethnically cleansing
by IsraelisIn 1956, the DMZ's 2,200 inhabitants have been terrorized into fleeing to Syria.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
2, 141
Jewish
121
Public
N/A
Total
2,262
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Jewish (Dunum)
Irrigated & Plantation
60
0
Planted W/ Cereal
1,961
121
Cultivable
2,021
121
Non-Cultivable
120
0
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1931
245
1945
360
1948
418
Est. Refugees 1998
2,565
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
54
1948
92
Nearby wadies & rivers
Wadi Mushayrifa ran between the two Kirad villages (al-Ghannama and al-Baqqara)
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Gadot and Mishmar ha-Yarden
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
The village site is littered with rubble, piles of stones, and fragments of houses. Grass, Christ's-thorn trees, and cactuses grow throughout the site
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