Al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya
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Al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, located 33 kilometers northeast of Gaza situated along the southern coastal plain of Palestine 50 meters above sea leve
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Bayt Daras
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Bayt Daras was a Palestinian Arab town located 46 kilometers northeast of Gaza and approximately 50 meters above sea level. The village was depopulated and destroyed during the 1948 Palestine war, as
Al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya
…Committee. Al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya was captured by the Haganah in Operation Barak on May 12. Its residents may have been pushed out by the attack on Bayt Daras on May 10 which was preceded by a mortar attack, but it's more likely that the village was depopulated on the attack of the village itself, according…
Old structure from Bayt Daras, presently in Azrikam
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Israeli army camp at Bayt Daras, 1948
Tantura expulsion