Qannir

Infobox Former Arab villages in Palestine
name=Qannir


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arname=قنْير
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district=hf
population=750
popyear=1945
area=11,331
areakm=11.3
date= 22-24 April 1948 and 9 May 1948
cause=F
cause2=A
cause3=M
curlocl=Regavim

Qannir ( _ar. قنْير) was a Palestinian village, located 35 kilometers south of Haifa. In the lead up to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, most of the women and children from among the more than 750 inhabitants fled in fear of impending or surrounding attacks,cite web|title=Welcome to Qannir|publisher=Palestine Remembered|accessdate=2007-12-04|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Haifa/Qannir/index.html] and/or on Arab orders.cite book|title="The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited"|author=Benny Morris|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-521-00967-7]

The village was captured by pre-state Israeli forces from the Arab Liberation Army, in Operation Coastal Clearing on April 25, 1948. On 9 May 1948, the forces of the Alexandroni Brigade "raided the village, killed four Arabs and blew up 55 houses". Any remaining villagers probably left at this time.

The Jewish Israeli locality of Regavim is located on the village's former lands.

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