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
1870s map
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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 grid163/244
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictHaifa
Date of depopulationmid-April, 1948
Population
 (1945)
  Total290
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
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