Barrat Qisarya

Place in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine

Barrat Qisarya
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32°30′34″N 34°54′33″E / 32.50944°N 34.90917°E / 32.50944; 34.90917
Palestine grid	143/213
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Haifa
Date of depopulation	mid-April, 1948^[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Fear of being caught up in the fighting
Secondary cause	Expulsion by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Or Akiva^[2]

Barrat Qisarya (Arabic: برة قيسارية, lit. 'outskirts of Caesarea') was a Palestinian Arab Bedouin village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was ethnically cleansed during the Zionist invasion on February 15, 1948.^[3] According to Morris in February 1948, the 'Arab al Sufsafi and Saidun Bedouin, who inhabited the dunes between Qisarya and Pardes left the area.^[4] Evidence of previous occupation includes pieces of marble, pottery and glass, as well as ruined walls. It was located 32 km southwest of Haifa.

References

^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #375. Also gives causes of depopulation.
^ Khalidi, 1992, pp. 154-155
^ Pappé, Ilan (2007). The ethnic cleansing of Palestine (Repr ed.). Oxford: Oneworld Publ. ISBN 978-1-85168-555-4.
^ Morris, 2004, p. 129

Bibliography

Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.