Ghost Towns
Baysamun
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💥 War & expulsion

Baysamun

Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
20
Coordinates
33.098, 35.579
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Why it was abandoned

💥 War & expulsion

Detected automatically from the text: It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion in Operation Yiftach.

History

Baysamun or Beisamoun was a small Palestinian Arab village, located 16.5 kilometers (10.3 mi) in the marshy Hula Valley northeast of Safad. In 1945, it had a population of 20. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion in Operation Yiftach.

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