Statistic/Fact	Value
Israeli occupation date	April 22, 1948
Distance from district center	11 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation from the sea	150 (meters)
Map location	See location number #47 on the map
Israeli military operation	Operation Yiftach (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)
Israeli attacking brigade	The Palmach's First Battalion
Israeli acts of terror	Kirad al-Ghannama was mostly ethnically cleansed and terrorized soon after the massacre committed at the nearby village of al-Husayniyya(Safad). See al-Husayniyya (Safad) for more details
Exodus Cause	Influence of fall of, or exoduce from, neighboring town
Village remains after destruction by Israelis	The village has been completely destroyed, and only the rubble of destroyed houses left behind.
Ethnically cleansing by Israelis	In mid-March, the inhabitants of Kiradal-Ghannama were partially terrorized into fleeing their homes after the massacre perpetrated in al-Husayniyya, and in 1956 the DMZ's 2,200 inhabitants were all terrorized into fleeing to Syria by the Israeli Army.
Land ownership before occupation	Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums) Arab 3,795 Jewish 175 Public 5 Total 3,975
Land usage in 1945	Land Usage Type Arab (Dunum) Jewish (Dunum) Area planted w/ citrus 77 0 Irrigated & Plantation 20 0 Planted W/ Cereal 3,451 175 Built up 64 0 Cultivable 3,548 175 Non-Cultivable 188 0
Population before occupation	Year Population 1931 265 1945 350 1948 406 Est. Refugees 1998 2,493
Number of houses	Year Number of houses 1931 54 1948 82
Nearby wadies & rivers	Wadi Mushayrifa ran between the two Kirad villages (al-Ghannama and al-Baqqara)
Water supplies	Wadi Waqqas contained plentiful supply of springs and wells the supplied the village with its water needs
Archeological sites	The village contained the following khirbas: Khirbat Nijmat al-Subh, Tall al-Qadah, and Tall al-Safa
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands	Ayyelet ha-Shahar and Gadot are nearby village lands
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More Information	Language External Links Arabic PalGates Hebrew Nakba-Online

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Town Today

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
Only the rubble of houses remains. Vegetation, such as shrubs, some trees, and grass, grows throughout tile area. The surrounding land is used by Israelis botil for crop cultivation and as pasture

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