Hunin
هونين | |
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Village | |
| Etymology: from personal name,[1] | |
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  Hunin Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°13′8″N 35°32′43″E / 33.21889°N 35.54528°E | |
| Palestine grid | 201/291 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | 3 May 1948 and September 1948[4] |
| Area | |
• Total | 14,224 dunams (14.224 km2 or 5.492 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 1,620[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Evacuation orders from Arab/Lebanese authorities |
| Secondary cause | fear of being caught up in the fighting; expulsion by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Misgav Am[5] Margaliot[5] |
Hunin (Arabic: هونين) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Galilee Panhandle part of Mandatory Palestine, close to the Lebanese border. It was the second largest village in the district of Safed, but was depopulated in 1948.[6] The inhabitants of this village were, similar to the inhabitants of Southern Lebanon, Shia Muslims.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 21
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #6. Also gives causes of depopulation.
- ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 455
- ^ Gelber, 2006, p. 222