Al-Zawiya | |
Native Name: | الزوِية |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Pushpin Map: | Mandatory Palestine |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
Coordinates: | 33.1553°N 35.5972°W |
Grid Name: | Palestine grid |
Grid Position: | 206/284 |
Subdivision Type: | Geopolitical entity |
Subdivision Name: | Mandatory Palestine |
Subdivision Type1: | Subdistrict |
Subdivision Name1: | Safad |
Established Title1: | Date of depopulation |
Established Date1: | May 24, 1948[1] |
Established Title2: | Repopulated dates |
Unit Pref: | dunam |
Area Total Dunam: | 3,958 |
Population As Of: | 1945 |
Population Total: | 760[2] [3] |
Blank Name Sec1: | Cause(s) of depopulation |
Blank Info Sec1: | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Blank1 Name Sec1: | Secondary cause |
Blank1 Info Sec1: | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
Blank3 Name Sec1: | Current Localities |
Blank3 Info Sec1: | Neot Mordechai |
Al-Zawiya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 24, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 23 km northeast of Safad.
In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ez Zawiya had a population of 590 Muslims, in a total of 141 houses.[4]
In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 760.[2] [3] with a total of 3,958 dunams of land (1 dunam=1000 square meters), according to an official land and population survey.[3] Of this, 3,593 dunums were used for cereals;[5] while a 195 dunams were classified as built-up, urban areas.[6]
Zawiya became depopulated on May 24, 1948, after expulsion by the Zionist forces.[1] [7] [8]