Umm ash Shauf
Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 480
- Coordinates
- 32.553, 35.049
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: It was depopulated as a result of a military assault between May 12–14, just before the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
History
Umm al-Shawf or Umm ash Shauf was a Palestinian Arab village located 29.5 km south of Haifa, on the sloping section of Wadi al-Marah. It was depopulated as a result of a military assault between May 12–14, just before the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.