Al-Sammu'i

Al-Sammu'i
السموعي
Sammu'i[1]
Village
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Al-Sammu'i is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Sammu'i
Al-Sammu'i
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°57′29″N 35°27′11″E / 32.95806°N 35.45306°E / 32.95806; 35.45306
Palestine grid192/262
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 12, 1948[1]
Area
[3]
 • Total15,135 dunams (15.135 km2 or 5.844 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total310[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationInfluence of nearby town's fall

Al-Sammu'i (Arabic: السموعي) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948, under Operation Hiram. It was located 4 km west of Safad. Today, Kfar Shamai is built on the site of the old village, and Amirim is built on the southern part of the village land.

In 1945, the village had a population of 310.[2] Al-Sammu'i had a mosque and a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh Muhammad al-'Ajami.

Al-Sammu'i 1946
  1. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #57. Also gives cause of depopulation
  2. ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 11
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine