Village memory · Palestine

Kasla

كَسْلا

Jerusalem districtDepopulated 1948

Kasla was a village of 280 people on a ridge above two deep wadis, watered by springs and keeping a shrine for a Shaykh Ahmad. The Har'el Brigade cleared it in mid-July 1948 during Operation Dani; Morris records that the villagers here had left earlier, fled under mortar fire, or were expelled.