Khirbat Al-Kasayir
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.
Al-Kasayir
خربة الكساير | |
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1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
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 |
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