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Yarda, Safad

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Subdistrict
  
Safad

Population
  
20 (1945)

Palestine grid
  
205/268

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Current localities
  
Ayelet HaShahar, Mishmar HaYarden

Yarda was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion during Operation Yiftach. It was located 10.5 km northeast of Safad. The area is now part of Israel.

In 1931, it had a populatuion of 13, growing to 20 in 1945. The Canaanites referred to the village as Hasur. Khirbat Waqqas was located west-northwest of the village.

References

Yarda, Safad Wikipedia