Ghost Towns
💥 War & expulsion

Al-Zuq al-Fawqani

Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
160
Coordinates
33.244, 35.592
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Why it was abandoned

💥 War & expulsion

Detected automatically from the text: It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 21, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach.

History

Al-Zuq al-Fawqani was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 21, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 32 km northeast of Safad. It is identified with the Late Roman site of Golgol.

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