Qaytiyya
Qaytiyya
Qeitiya | |
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Village | |
| Etymology: El Keitîyeh, el Keitîyeh, from personal name | |
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Qaytiyya (click the buttons) | |
Qaytiyya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°11′59″N 35°36′46″E / 33.19972°N 35.61278°E | |
| Palestine grid | 207/289 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | May 19, 1948/June 1948 |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 940 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Whispering campaign |
| Secondary cause | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Kfar Blum, possibly Beit Hillel |
Qaytiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 19, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 28 km northeast of Safad, bordering both the Hasibani and the Dan Rivers.