Mansurat al-Khayt

See Mansura (disambiguation) for other sites with similar names.

Mansurat al-Khayt
Mansurat al-Khayt
Arabic
Also Spelled	Mansurat al Kheit[1]
District	Safad
Coordinates	32°58′14.80″N 35°36′58.20″E / 32.970778°N 35.616167°E / 32.970778; 35.616167Coordinates: 32°58′14.80″N 35°36′58.20″E / 32.970778°N 35.616167°E / 32.970778; 35.616167
Population	200 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	January 18, 1948[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current localities	Kfar Hanassi?[2]However, Khalidi writes that it is on the land of Tuba[3]

Mansurat al-Khayt was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on January 18, 1948. It was located 11.5 km east of Safad, 1 km west of the Jordan River.

In 1945, the village had a population of 200. The village was also known by Mansurat al-Hula to distinguish it from al-Mansura, Safad and had a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh Mansur from which the village was named after.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #59. Also gives cause of depopulation
2. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, settlement #13.
3. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 475.

Bibliography

• Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html 
• Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0-88728-224-5 
• Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521009676. http://books.google.com/?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=benny+morris&q.