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| al-Zanghariyya District of Safad زُحلُق/الزنغرية - א-זנע'ריה Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
May 4, 1948
Distance from district center
8.5 (km) South East of Safad
Elevation from the sea
250 (meters)
Map location
See location number #69 on the map
Israeli military operation
Operation Matate (Broom) part of Operation Yiftach
Israeli attacking brigade
Some unknown brigade from the Haganah
Refugees' migration route
Refugees fled eastwards into Syria.
Exodus Cause
Expulsion by Jewish troops
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisThe village has been burned and destroyed on the 17th of June 1948.
Ethnically cleansing
by Israelisal-Zanghariyya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
27,856
Jewish
0
Public
62
Total
27,918
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Planted W/ Cereal
7,265
Cultivable
7,265
Non-Cultivable
20,653
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1922
374
1931
526
1945
840
1948
974
Est. Refugees 1998
5,984
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
97
1948
179
Town's name through history
The village was named after the 'Arab al-Zanghariyya Bedouin tribe, who first used the village as a camping ground and then gradually settled on village lands.
Nearby wadies & rivers
The village was situated close to Wadi al-Ghara.
Water supplies
Wadi al-Ghara supplied the village with several springs
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Elifelet and the private farm of Kare Deshe
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
All that is left are blocks of basalt that once had been parts of twelve houses. Although the houses have been demolished, some of their walls are still standing. Near the remnants of the village houses are stone barriers that form parts of livestock enclosures.
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