Al-Zawiya was a

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village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 24, 1948, by the

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's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 23 km northeast of

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History

In the

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, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ez Zawiya had a population of 590 Muslims, in a total of 141 houses.Mills, 1932, p
111
/ref> In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 760. with a total of 3,958 dunams of land (1 dunam=1000 square meters), according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 3,593 dunums were used for cereals; while a 195 dunams were classified as built-up, urban areas. Tel Hai

1948, aftermath

Zawiya became depopulated on May 24, 1948, after expulsion by the

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forces.Morris, 2004, p
347
note #37, p
397
/ref>

References

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External links

al-Zawiya
Zochrot *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4
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{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War District of Safad