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Madahil
مداحل | |
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Village | |
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  Madahil Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°12′18″N 35°38′30″E / 33.20500°N 35.64167°E | |
| Palestine grid | 210/290 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | April 30, 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
Madahil (Arabic: مداحل) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 30 km northeast of Safad in a flat area on the northeastern edge of the al-Hula Plain, about 1 km east of Wadi Banyas.
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #11. Also gives cause of depopupaltion