Al-Zanghariyya

Al-Zanghariyya
Al-Zanghariyya
Arabic
Also Spelled	Zanghariya[1]
District	Safad
Coordinates	32°56′29.20″N 35°35′10.25″E / 32.941444°N 35.5861806°E / 32.941444; 35.5861806Coordinates: 32°56′29.20″N 35°35′10.25″E / 32.941444°N 35.5861806°E / 32.941444; 35.5861806
Population	840 (1945)
Area	27,918 dunums
Date of depopulation	May 4, 1948[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary cause	Expulsion by Yishuv forces

Al-Zanghariyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948 under Operation Matate. It was located 8.5 km southeast of Safad, near Wadi al-Ghara. The village was later burned and destroyed on the 17th of June 1948.

In 1945, the village had a total population of 840. The village was named after the 'Arab al-Zanghariyya Bedouin tribe, who first used the village as a camping site. Today the moshav settlement of Elifelet and the private farm of Kare Deshe lie on the former village grounds.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #76. Also gives causes of depopulation.

Bibliography

• Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html 
• Khalidi, Walid (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 
• Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521009676. http://books.google.com/?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=benny+morris&q.