Madahil
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Madahil
| native_name = مداحل
| 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}} | map_caption = A series of historical maps of the area around {{PAGENAME}} (click the buttons)
| pushpin_mapsize = 200
| coordinates = {{coord|33|12|18|N|35|38|30|E|type:city_region:PS|display=inline,title}}
| grid_name = Palestine grid
| grid_position = 210/290
| subdivision_type = Geopolitical entity
| subdivision_name = Mandatory Palestine
| subdivision_type1 = Subdistrict
| subdivision_name1 = Safad
| established_title1 = Date of depopulation
| established_date1 = April 30, 1948Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR16 xvi], village #11. Also gives cause of depopupaltion
| established_title2 = Repopulated dates
| blank_name_sec1 = Cause(s) of depopulation
| blank_info_sec1 = Fear of being caught up in the fighting
}}
Madahil ({{langx|ar|مداحل }}) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 30 km northeast of Safad in a flat area on the northeastern edge of the al-Hula Plain, about 1 km east of Wadi Banyas.
History
Madahil was located just south of a small mound named Tall al-Turmus, which has provided evidence of a settlement dating to the fourth millennium B.C.Khalidi, 1992, p. 470
In the 1931 census of Palestine the population of Madahil was 100, all Muslims, in a total of 17 houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 108]
During the 1948 war, the evacuation occurred before the Zionist assault on Safad on 10 to 11 May. According to Morris, based on Haganah-sources, the villagers feared reprisals or feared being caught in a cross-fire after local Jewish communities had been attacked. Therefore, the villagers of Madahil (together with those of Khiyam al-Walid, Al-Hamra', Ghuraba, and (partially) Al-Muftakhira) fled.Morris, 2004, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA249 249], [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA302 302] However the American historian Rosemarie Esber gives as depopulation cause "Attack or atrocity in neighboring village or community" and "Fear of impending attack, or fall of neighboring town or village."Esber, 2008, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=NXMPAQAAMAAJ&q=Madahil 391] The Israeli settlement of Kefar Szold, founded in 1942, is located 1.5 km southeast of the village site, but not on village land.
The Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi described the village in 1992: "There are no traces of any village structures. The site is covered with grass, cane, and cactuses. The surrounding land is cultivated by the settlement of Kefar Szold."
References
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=Bibliography=
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- {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NXMPAQAAMAAJ |first=R.M. |last=Esber |author-link=Rosemarie Esber |year=2008 |title=Under the Cover of War, The Zionist Expulsions of the Palestinians |isbn=978-0981513171 |publisher=Arabicus Books & Media}}
- {{cite book|title=All That Remains:The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ |first=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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External links
- [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Safad/Madahil/index.html Welcome To Madahil]
- [https://www.zochrot.org/en/village/49256 Madahil], Zochrot
- [http://www.villagesofpalestine.com/Madahil.htm Madahil], Dr. Khalil Rizk.
- [http://www.alnakba.org/villages/safad/madahil.htm Madahil] at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War}}
Category:Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War