Al-Khisas

al-Khisas الخصاص 'Arab al-Khisas
Village
Ruins of a destroyed house in Al-Khisas after the 1947 Al-Khisas raid
al-Khisas
Coordinates: 33°13′31″N 35°37′10″E / 33.22528°N 35.61944°E / 33.22528; 35.61944
Palestine grid	208/292
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Safad
Date of depopulation	25 May 1948/June 1949[2]
Area
• Total	4,795 dunams (4.795 km2 or 1.851 sq mi)
Population  (1945)
• Total	530 (470 Arabs and 60 Jews)[1]
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.^[3]

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.