Bayt Mahsir
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Bayt Mahsir was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 10, 1948, by the Harel Brigade of Operation Makka
Panorama from west, 2008
Bayt Mahsir 1943 1:20,000
Bayt Mahsir 1945 1:250,000
Maqam al-'Ajami, in 2008
Qalunya
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Qalunya was a Palestinian village located 6 kilometers west of Jerusalem. Prior to the village's destruction in 1948, with the exception of 166 dunams, Qalunya's land was privately owned: 3,594 dunams
Bayt Mahsir
…fighting in the Jerusalem Corridor (operations 'Nachshon', 'Harel', 'Yevusi' and 'Maccabi'), Palmach units more or less systematically levelled Qastal, Qalunya and Khulda, and largely or partly destroyed the villages of Beit Surik, Biddu, Shuafat, Beit Iksa, Bayt Mahsir and Sheikh Jarrah. Bayt Mahsir was…
Qalunya, before 1949
Qalunya noted on 1587 print by Jean Zuallart
Qalunya panorama 10 April 1948