title: Khirbat Al-Kasayir
text: # Khirbat Al-Kasayir
  
  Al-Kasayir (Arabic: خربة الكساير, Hebrew: ח'ירבת אל-קסאייר) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict, located 13 km east of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 16, 1948, under the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek.
  
  ## History
  
  Many inhabitants were Muslim Arabs who traced their origins to North Africa.
  
  In the 1945 statistics Khirbat Al-Kasayir was counted among Shefa-'Amr suburbs, and it was noted with a population of 290 Muslims.
  
  