Ghost Towns
💥 War & expulsion

Al-Sammu'i

Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
32.958, 35.453
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Why it was abandoned

💥 War & expulsion

Detected automatically from the text: It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948, under Operation Hiram.

History

Al-Sammu'i was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948, under Operation Hiram. It was located 4 km west of Safad. Today, Kfar Shamai is built on the site of the old village, and Amirim is built on the southern part of the village land.

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