Sa'sa'

Sa'sa'
سعسع
Sa'sa', 1939
Sa'sa', 1939
Etymology: from personal name[1]
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Sa'sa' is located in Mandatory Palestine
Sa'sa'
Sa'sa'
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°01′43″N 35°23′40″E / 33.02861°N 35.39444°E / 33.02861; 35.39444
Palestine grid187/270
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulation30 October 1948[4]
Area
 • Total14,796 dunams (14.796 km2 or 5.713 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total1,130[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary causeExpulsion by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesSasa[5]

Sa'sa' (Arabic: سعسع, Hebrew: סעסע) was a Palestinian village, located 12 kilometres northwest of Safed, that was depopulated by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The village suffered two massacres committed by Haganah forces: one in mid-February 1948 and the other at the end of October the same year.[6][7][8] Its place has been taken since 1949 by Sasa, an Israeli kibbutz.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 93, see also p. 70
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 11
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #60. Also gives causes of depopulation.
  5. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxi, Settlement #51, established January 1949.
  6. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 495
  7. ^ Pappé, 2006, p. 77 ff.
  8. ^ Benvenisti, 2000, p. 153

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