Bayyarat Hannun

Bayyarat Hannun
Bayyarat Hannun
Subdistrict Tulkarm
Coordinates 32°17′33″N 34°51′41.55″E / 32.29250°N 34.8615417°E / 32.29250; 34.8615417Coordinates: 32°17′33″N 34°51′41.55″E / 32.29250°N 34.8615417°E / 32.29250; 34.8615417
Palestine grid 137/188
Date of depopulation Early April 1948[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation Fear of being caught up in the fighting
Secondary cause Expulsion by Yishuv forces

Bayyarat Hannun was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict, in the area which is now Israel. It was depopulated during the Operation Coastal Clearing on March 31, 1948 in the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. It was located 16 km west of Tulkarm.

References

  1. Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #374. Also gives cause of depopulation.

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