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Madahil

Madahil
مداحل
Village
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Madahil is located in Mandatory Palestine
Madahil
Madahil
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°12′18″N 35°38′30″E / 33.20500°N 35.64167°E / 33.20500; 35.64167
Palestine grid210/290
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationApril 30, 1948[1]
Cause(s) of depopulationFear of being caught up in the fighting

Madahil (Arabic: مداحل) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 30 km northeast of Safad in a flat area on the northeastern edge of the al-Hula Plain, about 1 km east of Wadi Banyas.

  1. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #11. Also gives cause of depopupaltion

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