| Al-'Abisiyya | |
| Native Name: | العابسية |
| Native Name Lang: | ar |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Etymology: | From personal name[1] |
| Pushpin Map: | Mandatory Palestine |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
| Coordinates: | 33.1986°N 35.6331°W |
| Grid Name: | Palestine grid |
| Grid Position: | 209/289 |
| Subdivision Type: | Geopolitical entity |
| Subdivision Name: | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdivision Type1: | Subdistrict |
| Subdivision Name1: | Safad |
| Established Title1: | Date of depopulation |
| Established Date1: | May 25, 1948[2] |
| Established Title2: | Repopulated dates |
| Unit Pref: | dunam |
| Population As Of: | 1945 |
| Population Total: | 1220[3] |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Cause(s) of depopulation |
| Blank Info Sec1: | Influence of nearby town's fall |
| Blank3 Name Sec1: | Current Localities |
| Blank3 Info Sec1: | Sde Nehemia |
Al-'Abisiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 29, 1948, by The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 28.5 km northeast of Safad near to the Banyas River which the village relied on for irrigation.
The village contained the khirbas of Tall al-Sakhina, Tall al-Shari'a, and al-Shaykh Ghannam.
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described the village as "a collection of mud hovels in the plain of the Huleh, on the Nahr Banias containing seventy Moslems. They till the land, which is arable round the village, there is a large supply of water and some trees near the village."[4]
In the 1931 census of Palestine, during the British Mandate for Palestine, the village had a population of 609, all Muslims, in a total of 31 houses.[5]
In the 1945 statistics the population of Al-'Abisiyya (including nearby Azaziyat, Ein Fit and Khirbat es Summan) was 1,220 Muslims,[3] with a total of 15,429 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[6] Arabs used 4 dunums of land for citrus and bananas, 6,390 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 2,830 for cereals;[7] while 17 dunams was built-up (urban) area.[8]
In May, 1948, Sde Nehemia requested, "somewhat shamefacedly", 1,700 dunams of land from the newly depopulated village of Al-'Abisiyya.[9]
