Al-Qudayriyya ( ar, القديرية) was a

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

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village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the

1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine The 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine was the first phase of the 1947–1949 Palestine war. It broke out after the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution on 29 November 1947 recommending the adoption of the Par ...

on May 4, 1948, by the Haganah and the Palmach's First Battalion of

Operation Matate Operation Matateh ( he, מבצע מטאטא, ''Mivtza Matateh'', lit. ''Operation Broom'') was a Haganah offensive launched ten days before the end of the British Mandate in Palestine. It was a sub-section of Operation Yiftach, with the objectives o ...

, a sub-operation of

Operation Yiftach Operation Yiftach ( he, מבצע יפתח, ''Mivtza Yiftah'') was a Palmach offensive carried out between 28 April and 23 May 1948. The objectives were to capture Safed and to secure the eastern Galilee before the British Mandate ended on 14 May ...

. It was located 6.5 km south of

Safad Safed (known in Hebrew as Tzfat; Sephardic Hebrew & Modern Hebrew: צְפַת ''Tsfat'', Ashkenazi Hebrew: ''Tzfas'', Biblical Hebrew: ''Ṣǝp̄aṯ''; ar, صفد, ''Ṣafad''), is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elev ...

, situated 1 km east of Wadi al-'Amud.

History

In 1881, the

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's ''

Survey of Western Palestine The PEF Survey of Palestine was a series of surveys carried out by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) between 1872 and 1877 for the Survey of Western Palestine and in 1880 for the Survey of Eastern Palestine. The survey was carried out after th ...

'' described nearby ''Kh. en Nueiriyeh'' as having "heaps of drafted masonry on the top of terraced hill, with a rock-cut well and three rock-cut wine-presses." According to

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, these were remains of

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and

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eras.

British Mandate era

In the

1922 census of Palestine The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922. The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divis ...

''Qudairiyeh'' had a population of 194; all Muslim,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p
42
/ref> decreasing in the 1931 census to 72, still all Muslims, in a total of 14 houses.Mills, 1932, p
109
/ref> In the 1945 statistics the population was 390 Muslims, with a total of 12,487 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 2,029 dunums were used for cereals, while 10,458 dunams were non-cultivable area. The village had a shrine for a local sage known as ''al-Shaykh al-Rumi'' and the Khirbat al-Nuwayriyya is located in the village.

1948, aftermath

The village was depopulate during

Operation Matateh Operation Matateh ( he, מבצע מטאטא, ''Mivtza Matateh'', lit. ''Operation Broom'') was a Haganah offensive launched ten days before the end of the British Mandate in Palestine. It was a sub-section of Operation Yiftach, with the objectives o ...

, on May 4, 1948.Morris, 2004, p
460
/ref>

References

Bibliography

* * * * * * * * * al-Qawuqji, F. (1972)
Memoirs of al-Qawuqji, Fauzi
in ''

Journal of Palestine Studies The ''Journal of Palestine Studies (JPS)'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1971. It is published by Taylor and Francis on behalf of the Institute for Palestine Studies, having previously been published by the University ...

''
"Memoirs, 1948, Part I" in 1, no. 4 (Sum. 72): 27-58.
dpf-file, downloadable
"Memoirs, 1948, Part II" in 2, no. 1 (Aut. 72): 3-33.
dpf-file, downloadable

External links

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Zochrot Zochrot ( he, זוכרות; "Remembering"; ar, ذاكرات; "Memories") is an Israeli nonprofit organization founded in 2002. Based in Tel Aviv, its aim is to promote awareness of the Palestinian ''Nakba'' ("Catastrophe"), including the 1948 P ...

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Dr. Khalil Rizk. *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 6
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