Al-Sammu'i

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.

Al-Sammu'i

السموعي

Sammu'i[1]
Village
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Al-Sammu'i
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°57′29″N 35°27′11″E
Palestine grid192/262
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 12, 1948[1]
Area
  Total15,135 dunams (15.135 km2 or 5.844 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
  Total310[3][2]
Cause(s) of depopulationInfluence of nearby town's fall

In 1945, the village had a population of 310.[3] 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

  1. Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #57. Also gives cause of depopulation
  2. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 11

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