Arabic عرب الصفا Palestine grid 200/205 | Subdistrict Baysan Date of depopulation 20 May 1948 | |
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Cause(s) of depopulation Influence of nearby town's fall | ||
Arab al-Safa (Arabic: عرب الصفا), was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan . It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was located 7.5 km south of Baysan.
The village was destroyed on May 20, 1948 by the Israeli Golani Brigade under Operation Gideon.
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the Mandatory Palestine authorities, Saffa had a population of 255 Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 540; 4 Christians and the rest Muslims, in 108 houses.
According to a land census report in 1944, land ownership in the village (in dunams) was as follows:
By 1944, a total of 7,449 dunums were used for cereals. The Arab population were occupied mainly in cereal farming. The village had a population of 225 in 1922. This had grown to 754 by 1948 with 150 houses.