Miska

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Miska
Arabic مسكة
District Tulkarm
Population 650[1] (1948)
Jurisdiction 8,076 dunams (8.0 km²)
Date of depopulation 15 April 1948[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation Explusion by Jewish forces
Current localities En HaChoresh, Givat Chayyirn, Achituv

Miska was a Palestinian village, located fifteen kilometers southwest of Tulkarem. Miska was founded by descendants of the Arabian tribe of Miskain in the 7th century Islamic conquest of Palestine.[2]

On April 15, 1948, Miska's Arab inhabitants were expelled on the order of the Haganah, the primary Jewish force prior to the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.[1] The village, with the exception of a boy's elementary school and a mosque, was destroyed on the orders of Yosef Weitz, a Jewish National Fund official.[2]

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  1. ^ a b c Pappe, 1999, pp. 204, 209
  2. ^ a b Welcome to Miska. Palestine Remembered. Retrieved on 2007-12-09.

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