Zawiya, Safad

For other places with similar names, see Zawiya.
Al-Zawiya
الزوِية
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Al-Zawiya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Zawiya
Al-Zawiya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°09′19″N 35°35′50″E / 33.15528°N 35.59722°E / 33.15528; 35.59722
Palestine grid206/284
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 24, 1948[3]
Area
 • Total
3,958 dunams (3.958 km2 or 1.528 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
760[1][2]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary causeExpulsion by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesNeot Mordechai

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.

  1. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 11
  2. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.71
  3. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #17. Also gives causes of depopulation.