Safsaf
صفصاف Safsofa | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Safsaf in 1938 | |
| Etymology: "the Osier willow"[1] | |
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  Safsaf Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°00′42″N 35°26′44″E / 33.01167°N 35.44556°E | |
| Palestine grid | 192/268 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | 29 October 1948[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7,391 dunams (7.391 km2 or 2.854 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 910[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Secondary cause | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
| Current Localities | Kfar Hoshen,[5][6] Bar Yohai[7] |
Safsaf (Arabic: صفصاف Ṣafṣāf, "weeping willow") was a Palestinian village 9 kilometres northwest of Safed, present-day Israel. Its villagers fled to Lebanon after the Safsaf massacre in October 1948, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 95
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 11
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #45. Also gives causes of depopulation.
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxi, Settlement #49, established January 1949.
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 491
- ^ Established in 1979. Khalidi, 1992, p. 491