Al-Qudayriyya القديرية Qudeiriya, al-[1] | |
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Village | |
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  Al-Qudayriyya Location withinMandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates:32°54′17″N35°30′33″E / 32.90472°N 35.50917°E /32.90472; 35.50917 | |
| Palestine grid | 197/256 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | May 4, 1948[1] |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 390[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault byYishuv forces |
| Secondary cause | Expulsion byYishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Kahal[4] |
Al-Qudayriyya (Arabic:القديرية) was aPalestinianArab village in theSafad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948, by the Haganah and the Palmach's First Battalion ofOperation Matate, a sub-operation ofOperation Yiftach. It was located 6.5 km south ofSafad, situated 1 km east of Wadi al-'Amud.
In 1881, thePEF'sSurvey of Western Palestine described nearbyKh. en Nueiriyeh[5] as having "heaps of drafted masonry on the top of terraced hill, with a rock-cut well and three rock-cut wine-presses".[6] According toKhalidi, these were remains ofRoman andByzantine eras.
In the1922 census of Palestine,Qudairiyeh had a population of 194; allMuslim,[7] decreasing in the1931 census to 72, still all Muslims, in a total of 14 houses.[8]
In the1945 statistics, the population was 390 Muslims,[2] with a total of 12,487 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[3] Of this, 2,029 dunums were used for cereals,[9] while 10,458 dunams were non-cultivable area.[10]
The village had a shrine for a local sage known asal-Shaykh al-Rumi and the Khirbat al-Nuwayriyya is located in the village.[4]
The village was depopulate duringOperation Matateh, on May 4, 1948.[11][12][13]
