Safsaf
Safsaf
صفصاف Safsofa | |
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Village | |
Safsaf in 1938 | |
| Etymology: "the Osier willow" | |
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Safsaf (click the buttons) | |
Safsaf Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°00′42″N 35°26′44″E / 33.01167°N 35.44556°E | |
| Palestine grid | 192/268 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | 29 October 1948 |
| Area | |
• Total | 7,391 dunams (7.391 km2; 2.854 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 910 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Secondary cause | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
| Current Localities | Kfar Hoshen, Bar Yohai |
Safsaf (Arabic: صفصاف Ṣafṣāf, "weeping willow") was a Palestinian village 9 kilometres northwest of Safed, present-day Israel. Its villagers fled to Lebanon after the Safsaf massacre in October 1948, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.