Al-Dirbashiyya

Al-Dirbashiyya (Arabic: الدرباشية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 10, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 20 km northeast of Safad in the Hula Valley, bordering Hula Lake.

Al-Dirbashiyya
الدرباشية
Darbashiya, al
Village
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Al-Dirbashiyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°05′20″N 35°38′49″E
Palestine grid210/277
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay, 1948
Area
  Total2,883 dunams (2.883 km2 or 1.113 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
  Total310
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