Al-Manshiyya, Safad

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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Al-Manshiyya

| native_name = المنشية

| native_name_lang = ar

| settlement_type = Village

| pushpin_map = Mandatory Palestine | pushpin_map_caption = Location within Mandatory Palestine | image_map = {{Historical map series|default=2|date1=1870s|date2=1940s|date3=modern|date4=1940s with modern overlay|width=225|name=al-Manshiyya, Safad}} | map_caption = A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Manshiyya, Safad (click the buttons)

| pushpin_mapsize = 200

| coordinates = {{coord|33|13|32|N|35|36|24|E|type:city_region:PS|display=inline,title}}

| grid_name = Palestine grid

| grid_position = 206/292

| subdivision_type = Geopolitical entity

| subdivision_name = Mandatory Palestine

| subdivision_type1 = Subdistrict

| subdivision_name1 = Safad

| established_title1 = Date of depopulation

| established_date1 = Not knownMorris, 2004, p [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR16 xvi], village number 391. Gives both the date and cause for depopulation as "not known".

| established_title2 = Repopulated dates

| unit_pref = dunam

| population_as_of = 1948

| population_total = 140

| blank_name_sec1 = Cause(s) of depopulation

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Al-Manshiyya ({{langx|ar|المنشية}}) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict (located 30 km northeast of Safad) that was depopulated by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach during the 1948 War on May 24, 1948.Khalidi, 1992, p. 473

In 1948 it had a population of 140. 1948 was also the year the village was destroyed and depopulated. It is now mainly deserted with multiple abandoned buildings.

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  • {{cite book|title=All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|first1=W.|last=Khalidi|author-link=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies|ISBN=0-88728-224-5}}
  • {{cite book | editor = Mills, E. | title = Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas |url=https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas | publisher = Government of Palestine | location = Jerusalem | year = 1932}}
  • {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C |first=B. |last=Morris |author-link=Benny Morris |year=2004 |title=The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited|isbn=978-0-521-00967-6 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}

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