• Kirad al-Ghannama District of Safad

Occupation date: 2^nd of April 1948.

Kirad al-Ghannama was mostly ethnically cleansed and terrorized soon after the massacre

committed at the nearby village of al-Husayniyya.

The village has been completely destroyed and only the rubble of destroyed houses left

behind. In mod-March, the inhabitants of Kirad-Ghannama were partially terrorized into

fleeing their homes after the massacre perpetrate in al-Husayniyya and 1956 the DMZ’s

2,200 inhabitants were all terrorized into fleeing to Syria by the Israeli Army.

                        Ethnic Group                                  Land Ownership

                              Arab                                                        3,795

Land Ownership    Jewish                                                       175

                              Public                                                           5

                            Year                                                    Population

                            1931                                                         265

Population           1945                                                         350

Wadi Waqqas contained plentiful supply of springs and wells the supplied the vollage with

its water needs. The village contained the following Khirbas: Khirbat Nijmat al-Subh, Tall

al-Qadah, and Tall al-Safa.

Ayyelet ha-Shahar and Gadot Israeli settlements  are nearby village lands.