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Welcome To Sa'sa', Khirbat - خربة سعْسع (ח'ירבת סעסע)

District of Haifa
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Picture for Sa'sa', Khirbat Village - Palestine: : Khirbat Sa'sa ruins, a view from the East, 2000
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date April 28, 1948
Distance From District 15 (km) East of Haifa
Elevation 50 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #5 on the map

View from satellite
Military Operation Possibly Bi'ur Chametz
Attacking Units Some unknown units from the Haganah.
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing Sa'sa', Khirbat inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Population
Year Population*
1931 1,197
1945 130
1948 151
Est. Refugees 1998 926
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses In (1931): 234 (includes Wa'arat al-Sarris and 8 other villages)
Near By Townswhat's new
Hawsha

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Haifa  
   Shafa Amr
           
Balad al-Shaykh

Yajur
Town's Name Through History The Romans referred to the village by Kefar Sasai
Archeological Sites Khirbat Sa'sa' contained building foundations, tombs carved in rocks, cisterns, and caves. Also Khirbat Jabyatha, an artificial mound with exposed wall fragments.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
No settlements on the village lands
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Village Before Nakba

The village was located on a round, slightly elevated mound overlooking the eastern edge of the plain of Haifa. Since scholars have identified the site as that of Roman Kefar Sasai, it is probable that at least part of the ruins visible in Khirbat Sa'sa date to the early centuries A.D. Kefar Sasai is known to have been a village near the ancient boundary of Ptolemais (Acre) and Sepphoris (later Saffuriyya, in Nazareth sub-disctrict). Khirbat Sa'sa' was classified as a hamlet by the Palestine Index Gazetteer in the Mandate era. Ruins on the site included building foundations, tombs carved in rocks, cisterns, and caves. South of the village lay Khirbat Jabyatha, an artificial mound with exposed wall fragments.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Khirbat Sa'sa' was in an area in which some other villages were seized in the early weeks of the war. However, the bulk of the communities in the vicinity were captured on the heels of the fall of Haifa, during the last week of April 1948. If the village remained unoccupied until the end of April, it was probably captured at this time by Haganah units who sought to consolidate their hold on Haifa.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on the village lands, which have been amalgamated with those of the Arab town of Shafa Amr.

Village Today

Cactuses and fig trees can be found scattered about the site. There are a number of partially collapsed stone walls, one with a large arched opening. The surrounding lands are used as a grazing area.

Source

Dr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains.

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