Safsaf

Safsaf
صفصاف
Safsofa
Village
Safsaf in 1938
Etymology: "the Osier willow"
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Safsaf (click the buttons)
Safsaf
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°00′42″N 35°26′44″E / 33.01167°N 35.44556°E / 33.01167; 35.44556
Palestine grid192/268
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulation29 October 1948
Area
 • Total
7,391 dunams (7.391 km2 or 2.854 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
910
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary causeFear of being caught up in the fighting
Current LocalitiesKfar Hoshen, Bar Yohai

Safsaf (Arabic: صفصاف Ṣafṣāf, "weeping willow") was a Palestinian village 9 kilometres northwest of Safed, present-day Israel. Its villagers fled to Lebanon after the Safsaf massacre in October 1948, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

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