Al-Safiriyya
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Al-Safiriyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during Operation Hametz in the 1948 Palestine War on May 20, 1948.[5] It was located 11 km east of Jaffa, 1.5 km west of Ben Gurion Airport.
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Al-Safiriyya
السافريّة | |
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Etymology: from a personal name [1] | |
Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
Coordinates: 31°59′36″N 34°51′04″E | |
Palestine grid | 135/155 |
Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
Subdistrict | Jaffa |
Date of depopulation | Not known[2] |
Area | |
• Total | 12,842 dunams (12.842 km2 or 4.958 sq mi) |
Population (1945) | |
• Total | 3,070[4][3] |
Current Localities | Tzafria,[5] Kfar Chabad,[5] Ahi'ezer[5] Tochelet[5] Sharir[6] Shafrir (at the site of what is now Kfar Chabad) has been absorbed in the previous, and in the suburbs of Rishon LeZion[5] |
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Starting in 1949, the ruins of the site were overbuilt by the Israeli town of Kfar Chabad.