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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. 600 meters elevated from sea level.

History

The villagers were descendants of Algerian immigrants who had fought with Abd alQadir alJazairi against the French colonialists in the 1830s and 1840s. These people may have with him to the region following his defeat and banishment to Damascus in 1847.

See also


  • [1], Palestine Remembered