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Zawiya, Safad

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Subdistrict
  
Safad

Area
  
3,958 dunams

Local time
  
Sunday 7:42 AM

Date of depopulation
  
24 May 1948

Palestine grid
  
206/284

Current localities
  
Ne’ot Mordekhay

Current locality
  
Neot Mordechai

Zawiya, Safad

Cause(s) of depopulation
  
Military assault by Yishuv forces

Secondary cause
  
Expulsion by Yishuv forces

Weather
  
14°C, Wind E at 5 km/h, 87% Humidity

Al-Zawiya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 24, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 23 km northeast of Safad.

In 1945, the village had a population of 760. The village consisted of two neighborhoods on both banks of an irrigation canal that drew water from the Jordan River.

References

Zawiya, Safad Wikipedia