Al-Samakiyya

Al-Samakiyya
Arabic
District	Tiberias
Population	380 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	Not known[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation

Al-Samakiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948 under Operation Matat. It was located 11 km northeast of Tiberias, near the Wadi al-Wadabani.

In 1945, the village had a population of 380. al-Samakiyya had an Italian monastery, a Franciscan church, and a Greek Orthodox church .

References

1. ^ Morris, 2004, p.xvii, village #373. Gives both date and cause of depopulation as "Not known"

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. 

External links

• Welcome To al-Samakiyya
• Al-Samakiyya from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
• Al-Samakiyyeh (Talhum) from Dr. Moslih Kanaaneh