e/Arab al-Zubayd

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has glosseng: Arab al-Zubayd was a Palestinian village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War on April 20, 1948, when the villagers fled on hearing the intentions of The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 15 km northeast of Safad, situated close to al-Barid River in the foothills of the Upper Galilee Mountains, which slope towards the al-Hula Plain. It was located just west of the al-Mutilla-Safad—Tiberias highway. Nevertheless, in August 1948, Golani Brigade units were pre­paring to blow up the village after a complaint from the nearby Kibbutz Sha’ar ha-’Amaqim who objected to their forces.<ref name=Khalidi436/> Prime Minister Ben Gurion denied responsibility, saying: “ No permission was given by me or to any commander to destroy houses.” The village was still destroyed and today all that remains of ‘Arab al-Zubayed is rubble, buried under a thicket of woods, grass, and thorny plants.<ref...
lexicalizationeng: Arab al-Zubayd
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