Statistic/Fact	Value
Israeli occupation date	April 21, 1948
Distance from district center	11 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation from the sea	125 (meters)
Map location	See location number #43 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	The massacre of 30 men on the 16th-17th of March 1948 by an unknown Palmach battalion
Exodus Cause	Influence of fall of, or exoduce from, neighboring town
Village remains after destruction by Israelis	The village has been completely obliterated, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically cleansing by Israelis	al-Husayniyya was mostly ethnically cleansed and terrorized after the massacre committed in March.
Land ownership before occupation	Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums) Arab 3,556 Jewish 1,753 Public 15 Total 5,324
Population before occupation	Year Population 1922 296 1931 274 1945 340 1948 394
Number of houses	In (1931): 64 (includes Tulayl)
Schools	The village had an elementary school for boys, which was shared with the neighboring village of Tulayl.
Water supplies	The village had plenty of underground and surface water from springs, a creek, and artesian wells.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands	Chulata and Sde Eli'ezer
Related Maps	خرائط تفصيلية للمحافظة View from satellite Help us map this town at WikiMapia
More Information	Language External Links 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 piles of stone and sections of walls from demolished houses remain. The site itself is overgrown with thorns, grasses, and scattered Christ's-thorn trees, and is used as pasture