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Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

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Ghuwayr Abu Shusha
Arabic
Sub-district Tiberias
Population (1945)
Area 12,098 dunums
Date of depopulation 21 and 28 April 1948[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation Military assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary cause Influence of nearby town's fall

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 21, 1948. It was located 8 km north of Tiberias, nearby Wadi Rubadiyya.

In 1945, it had a population of 1,240. A shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh Muhammad remains. The village also contained Khirbat Abu Shusha, which had the ruins of water-powered mills.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Morris, 2004, p.xvii, village #93. Also gives causes of depopulation.

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Coordinates: 32°51′13″N 35°30′34″E / 32.8535°N 35.5094°E / 32.8535; 35.5094


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