Al-Zanghariyya

Al-Zanghariyya
زُحلق/الزنغرية
Zanghariya
Village
Etymology: Arab ez Zengharîyeh, the Zengharîyeh Arabs, p.n.
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Al-Zanghariyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°56′29″N 35°35′10″E / 32.94139°N 35.58611°E / 32.94139; 35.58611
Palestine grid205/260
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 4, 1948
Area
 • Total
27,918 dunams (27.918 km2; 10.779 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
840
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary causeExpulsion by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesElifelet

Al-Zanghariyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948, under Operation Matateh. It was located 8.5 km southeast of Safad, near Wadi al-Ghara. The village was later burned and destroyed on June 17, 1948.