Palestine grid 197/251 Date of depopulation 28 April 1948 | ||
Secondary cause Influence of nearby town's fall Weather 17°C, Wind W at 21 km/h, 63% Humidity | ||
Ghuwayr Abu Shusha was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 21, 1948. It was located 8 km north of Tiberias, nearby Wadi Rubadiyya.
In 1945, it had a population of 1,240. A shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh Muhammad remains. The village also contained Khirbat Abu Shusha, which had the ruins of water-powered mills.
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