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Occupation date: 29th
of October 1948.
The massacre of 70 blind
folded men, also three cases of rape, including the rape of 14
years old girl. The
girl was raped while getting water for the soldiers.
The village has been
mostly destroyed with the exception of few houses (some are
inhabited by Jewish
settlers).
The people of Safsaf
were mostly ethnically cleansed Lebanon, however, some made it to
Syria: Nahr El-Bared,
Burj Al-Barajneh, Badawi, Ein Al-Helweh, Sabra/Shatila, Ghoro-
Ba'labak, Wihdat
(Amman-Jordan), Ein Elma, Burj Al-Shamali, Tal Al-Za'atar, Yarmouk
(Syria), and Homs
(Syria).
The Romans referred to
the village by safsofa. Safsaf had an elementary school for boys
founded during the
British Mandate period.
There was one mosque and
the shrine of al-Ajami located in the southern borders of Safsaf.
Nowadays, we can see in
Safsaf an Israeli settlement named ha-Shahar and Bar Yochay.
In 1596 the population
was (138), in
the 19th century
(100), in 1931
(662) and in 1945
(910).
The Arab’s land
ownership was 5,344
dunums, Jewish
0 dunums, and
public 2,047
dunums.
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