Khirbat al-Shuna

Khirbat al-Shuna
former Khirbat al-Shuna, presently Jabotinsky Park in Binyamina
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Khirbat al-Shuna (click the buttons)
Khirbat al-Shuna Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°32′05″N 34°56′51″E / 32.53472°N 34.94750°E / 32.53472; 34.94750
Palestine grid	145/215
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Haifa
Date of depopulation	March 15, 1948

Khirbat al-Shuna or Khirbat ash Shuna was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 15, 1948. It was located 32.5 km south of Haifa. Khirbat al-Shuna contained a small archaeological site, Khirbat Tell Mubarak. The area is now part of a JNF park, immediately north of Binyamina-Giv'at Ada.

References

• Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
• Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
• Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.

External links

• Welcome To al-Shuna, Khirbat at palestineremembered.com
• Khirbat al-Shuna (Haifa), Zochrot
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons

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