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Template:Infobox Former Arab villages in Palestine Dayshum was a Palestinian village, depopulated in 30 October 1948 by israeli terror group Palmach Sheva' (Seventh) brigade in an operation called Hiram, where the village has been completely obliterated, and only house rubble left behind.


Location

The village was located 12 kilometres north of Safed. 600m elevated from sea

History

The Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi noted its ancient buildings and praised one of them, which he claimed had originally been a temple and perhaps was built by Solomon.[1][2]

See also


  • [1], Palestine Remembered
  1. ^ le Strange, 1890, p.340
  2. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 456