Khirbat Al-Kasayir

Al-Kasayir خربة الكساير
A series of historical maps of the area around Khirbat Al-Kasayir (click the buttons)
Al-Kasayir Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°47′36″N 35°08′19″E
Palestine grid	163/244
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Haifa
Date of depopulation	mid-April, 1948
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.

History

In the 1945 statistics Khirbat Al-Kasayir was counted among Shefa-'Amr suburbs, and it was noted with a population of 290 Muslims.

Bibliography

• Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
• Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
• Khalidi, W. (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, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.

External links

• Welcome To al-Kasayir, Khirbat
• Khirbat al-Kasair, Zochrot
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 5: IAA, Wikimedia commons