SARIS

Saris

Saris was a Palestinian Arab village that was depopulated during the major offensive launched by the Haganah on 6th April 1948. Called Operation Nachshon, and launched before the British had left Palestine, its objective was to capture villages between Jerusalem and the coastal plain.

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