Al-Qudayriyya


Al-Qudayriyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948, by the Haganah and the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Matate, a sub-operation of Operation Yiftach. It was located 6.5 km south of Safad, situated 1 km east of Wadi al-'Amud.

History

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described nearby Kh. en Nueiriyeh as having "heaps of drafted masonry on the top of terraced hill, with a rock-cut well and three rock-cut wine-presses." According to Khalidi, these were remains of Roman and Byzantine eras.

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine Qudairiyeh had a population of 194; all Muslim, decreasing in the 1931 census to 72, still all Muslims, in a total of 14 houses.
In the 1945 statistics the population was 390 Muslims, with a total of 12,487 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 2,029 dunums were used for cereals, while 10,458 dunams were non-cultivable area.
The village had a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh al-Rumi and the Khirbat al-Nuwayriyya is located in the village.

1948, aftermath

The village was depopulate during Operation Matateh, on May 4, 1948.