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Qaytiyya

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Also spelled
  
Qeitiya

Palestine grid
  
207/289

Date of depopulation
  
May 19, 1948/June 1948

Local time
  
Monday 5:07 PM

Subdistrict
  
Safad

Population
  
940 (1945)

Cause(s) of depopulation
  
Whispering campaign

Qaytiyya

Weather
  
17°C, Wind W at 21 km/h, 65% Humidity

Qaytiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 19, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 28 km northeast of Safad, bordering both the Hasibani and the Dan Rivers.

In 1945, the village had a population of 940.

References

Qaytiyya Wikipedia