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Welcome To al-Samakiyya - السمكية (ערב א-סמכיה)

District of Tiberias
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Picture for al-Samakiyya Village - Palestine: : Abu Ahmad al-Sukari, 70, a Palestinian refugee who lives in the al-Yarmouk camp on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, holds up property deeds for lands in Israel
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 4, 1948
Distance From District 11 (km) Northeast of Tiberias
Elevation about -200 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #3 on the map

View from satellite
Military Operation Operation Matat (Broom). A sub-operation within Operation Yiftach
Exodus Cause Expulsion by Zionist troops
Village Temains al-Samakiyyan was completely obliterated and defaced.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Samakiyya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 10,474
Jewish 0
Public 52
**Total 10,526
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 2
Irrigated & Plantation 66
Olive Groves 50
Planted W/ Cereal 4,034
Arable 4,102
Non-Arable 6,424
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 193
1931 290
1945 380
1948 441
Est. Refugees 1998 2,707
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses In (1931): 60 (includes Talhum)
Near By Townswhat's new
al-Qudayriyya
         
Jubb Yusuf

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al-Zanghariyya
       
al-Tabigha  

Tiberias Lake
Places of Warship al-Samakiyya had an Italian monastery, a Franciscan church, and a Greek Orthodox church . It's very possible that all of these churches or monasteries remains standing!
Nearby Wadies & Rivers Wadi al-Wadabani borders village lands
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
Amnon and Korazin

Village Today

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
The village site is covered with wild vegetation, piles of basalt stones, and date palm trees. Part of the surrounding land is used as pasture, and the other part is planted with fruit and walnut trees
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