Safsaf
Sign in to saveSafsaf ( 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.
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- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Area
- 7391
- Image
- הכפר ספסופה 1938 - i אייכנגריןi btm8924.jpeg
- Significant event
- Safsaf massacre
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- Ottoman era
- British Mandate era
- 1948, and aftermath
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Safsaf ( 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.
==History== The village was called Safsofa in Roman times.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Safsaf” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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