Arab al-Safa

Arab al-Safa (Arabic: عرب الصفا‎) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan . It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was located 7.5 km south of Baysan.

The village was destroyed on May 20, 1948 by the Israeli Golani Brigade under Operation Gideon.

Demographics

According to a land census report in 1944, land ownership in the village (in dunams) was as follows:

By 1944, a total of 7,449 dunums were used for cereals. The Arab population were occupied mainly in cereal farming. The village had a population of 225 in 1922. This had grown to 754 by 1948 with 150 houses.

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