Zawiya, Safad

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.

Al-Zawiya

الزوِية
Village
Al-Zawiya
Coordinates: 33°09′19″N 35°35′50″E
Palestine grid206/284
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 24, 1948[1]
Area
 • Total3,958 dunams (3.958 km2 or 1.528 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total760[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary causeExpulsion by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesNeot Mordechai

History

In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ez Zawiya had a population of 590 Muslims, in a total of 141 houses.[4]

In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 760.[2][3] with a total of 3,958 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[3] Of this, 3,593 dunums were used for cereals;[5] while a 195 dunams were classified as built-up, urban areas.[6]

Zawiya, 1946

1948, aftermath

Zawiya became depopulated on May 24, 1948, after expulsion by the Zionist forces.[1][7][8]

References
  1. Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #17. Also gives causes of depopulation.
  2. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 11
  3. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.71
  4. Mills, 1932, p. 111
  5. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 121
  6. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 171
  7. Morris, 2004, p. 251 note #709, p. 303
  8. Morris, 2004, p. 347, note #37, p. 397

Bibliography
  • Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  • Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
  • Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
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