Kafr 'Inan

Kafr 'Inan

Infobox Former Arab villages in Palestine
name=Kafr 'Inan
arname=كفر عنان
district=ac
area=5,827
arabo=5,424
jewo=403
strucst=2 (the mosque and a shrine)
house31=47
house48=79
housest=0
population=360
popyear=1945
date=30 October 1948
oper=Hiram
brig=Golani
curlocl=Kfar Hananya

Kafr 'Inan was a Palestinian village in the District of Acre around 33 km east of the Acre. It was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Archeological sites

Kafr 'Inan contains the shafts and bases of columns, caves, a pool, and burial grounds.

One shrine of al-Shaykh Abu Hajar Azraq and a mosque remains standing to this date, but the latter is in need of renovation. Many springs and domestic wells which used to supply it with fresh drinking water.

Occupation, destruction and Ethnic Cleansing

The village was captured on 30 October 1948 by the Golani Brigade as part of Operation Hiram, and was mostly destroyed with the exception of the village mosque and its shrine, and its inhabitants (360 in 1945) were completely ethnically cleansed.

Today the area is the base of the communal settlement of Kfar Hananya.


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