Al-Khisas
al-Khisas
الخصاص 'Arab al-Khisas | |
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Village | |
Ruins of a destroyed house in Al-Khisas after the 1947 Al-Khisas raid | |
| Coordinates: 33°13′31″N 35°37′10″E / 33.22528°N 35.61944°E | |
| Palestine grid | 208/292 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | 25 May 1948/June 1949 |
| Area | |
• Total | 4,795 dunams (4.795 km2 or 1.851 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 530 (470 Arabs and 60 Jews) |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Violence and direct expulsions |
| Current Localities | HaGoshrim (ha-Gosherim) |
Al-Khisas (Arabic: الخصاص), also known as Khisas or Khissas, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict in Mandatory Palestine. It was located 31 kilometers (19 mi) northeast of Safed on a natural terrace about 100 meters (330 ft) wide that formed when Lake al-Hula receded. To the west of the village was a valley known as Wadi al-Hasibani through which ran the Hasbani River.
During the 1948 Palestine war, and as part of the Nakba, the village was attacked by the Palmach in a punitive raid and 10-15 of its residents were massacred. The village was subsequently depopulated and destroyed by Israeli forces. Today the Israeli kibbutz of HaGoshrim exists on the villages former lands.