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| al-Zawiya District of Safad الزوِية - א-זאויה Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
May 24, 1948
Distance from district center
23 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation from the sea
75 (meters)
Map location
See location number #21 on the map
Israeli military operation
Operation Yiftach (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)
Israeli attacking brigade
The Palmach's First Battalion
Exodus Cause
Military assault by Jewish troops
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisThe village has been completely destroyed soon after occupation.
Ethnically cleansing
by Israelisal-Zawiya has been ethnically cleansed as a result of psychological warfare conducted on the 24th of May 1948
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
3,797
Jewish
0
Public
161
Total
3,958
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Planted W/ Cereal
3,593
Built up
195
Cultivable
3,593
Non-Cultivable
161
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1931
590
1945
760
1948
882
Est. Refugees 1998
5,414
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
141
1948
210
Nearby wadies & rivers
The village was made of two neighborhoods on both banks of an irrigation canal that drew water from the Jordan
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
The settlement of Ne'ot Mordekhay is nearby village lands.
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
No landmarks, rubble, or other signs of al-Zawiya remain. The site has become part of the settlement's agricultural lands, and is now covered by cotton fields
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