Al-Kasayir
خربة الكساير | |
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Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
Coordinates: 32°47′36″N 35°08′19″E / 32.79333°N 35.13861°E | |
Palestine grid | 163/244 |
Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
Subdistrict | Haifa |
Date of depopulation | mid-April, 1948[1] |
Population (1945) | |
• Total | 290 |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Al-Kasayir (Arabic: خربة الكساير, Hebrew: ח'ירבת אל-קסאייר) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict, located 13 km east of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 16, 1948, under the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek.
Many inhabitants were Muslim Arabs who traced their origins to North Africa.[citation needed]
In the 1945 statistics Khirbat Al-Kasayir was counted among Shefa-'Amr suburbs, and it was noted with a population of 290 Muslims.[2][3][4][5]