Village in Safad, Mandatory Palestine
Al-Sammu'i (
Arabic : السموعي ) was a
Palestinian
Arab village in the
Safad Subdistrict . It was depopulated during the
1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948, under
Operation Hiram . It was located 4 km west of
Safad . Today,
Kfar Shamai is built on the site of the old village, and
Amirim is built on the southern part of the village land.
In
1945 , the village had a population of 310.
[2] Al-Sammu'i had a mosque and a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh Muhammad al-'Ajami.
Al-Sammu'i 1946
References
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a
b Morris, 2004, p.
xvi , village #57. Also gives cause of depopulation
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a
b Department of Statistics, 1945, p.
11
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a
b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945 . Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
71
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