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Welcome To al-Samakiyya - السمكية (ערב א-סמכיה)

District of Tiberias
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 4, 1948
Distance From District 11 (km) Northeast of Tiberias
Elevation about -200 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #3 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Matat (Broom). A sub-operation within Operation Yiftach
Exodus Cause Expulsion by Zionist troops
Village Temains al-Samakiyyan was completely obliterated and defaced.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Samakiyya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 10,474
Jewish 0
Public 52
**Total 10,526
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 2
Irrigated & Plantation 66
Olive Groves 50
Planted W/ Cereal 4,034
Arable 4,102
Non-Arable 6,424
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 193
1931 290
1945 380
1948 441
Est. Refugees 1998 2,707
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses In (1931): 60 (includes Talhum)
Near By Townswhat's new
al-Qudayriyya
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Jubb Yusuf
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al-Zanghariyya
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al-Tabigha  ←
al-Samakiyya
→   'Arab al-Shamalina
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Tiberias Lake
Places of Warship al-Samakiyya had an Italian monastery, a Franciscan church, and a Greek Orthodox church . It's very possible that all of these churches or monasteries remains standing!
Nearby Wadies & Rivers Wadi al-Wadabani borders village lands
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
That Usurped Village Lands		 Amnon and Korazin
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Village Before Nakba

The village was located in a volcanic area on the northern coast of Lake Tiberias. It was linked by a secondary road to the highway which wound around the lake shore to the city of Tiberias. The village was built close to the site of the Roman/Byzantine city of Kefar Nachum (or Capernaum). Now in ruins, this city is known as Tall Hum, although there is no actual tell (mound) on the site. In his discussion of the route around the northern edge of Lake Tiberias, Josephus referred to al-Samakiyya as a village that cultivated fertile agricultural land and was called Capharnaum by the inhabitants. [Wars III:519-20] It was mentioned in the New Testament as the city where Christ resided most of the time after leaving Nazareth. [Matthew 4:13; 9:1]

The American biblical scholar Edward Robinson mentioned that the small tribe of al-Samakiyya used some houses in Abu Shusha, to the southwest, as storage places. [Robinson (1841) III:286] The village of al-Samakiyya had no distinctive settlement pattern; its houses were dispersed southwest of Wadi al-Wadabani. Some of these dwellings were Bedouin tents made of goat's hair, while others were houses built of stone and mud, stone and cement, or concrete. The 380 inhabitants of the village consisted of 330 Muslims and 50 Christians. They relied for their livelihood on livestock breeding and agriculture (mainly grain). In 1944/45 only 2 dunums were devoted to citrus and bananas while 4,034 dunums were allocated to cereals; 66 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Several churches and monasteries were located in the hills between al-Samakiyya and the nearby village of al-Tabigha, including an Italian monastery, a Franciscan church, and a Greek Orthodox church. (The residents in the area claim that Christ delivered his 'Sermon on the Mount' on one of these hills, called Khirbat al-Mubaraka, or 'the blessed.')

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

One source mentions that a Bedouin tribe in the area named the 'Arab al-Samakiyya was swept away by Israeli forces during Operation Matate (Broom). That offensive was implemented on 4 May 1948, as a sub-operation within Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-disctrict). The aim was to expel the inhabitants of the area, destroy their houses, and 'to join the lower and upper Galilee with a relatively wide and safe strip' of Jewish-controlled territory. On 28 May, the New York Times reported that 'Associated Press correspondents who toured battlefronts on the north and east with Israeli forces said the Arabs had been swept almost virtually clea

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Amnon, built in 1983 on village land, is 2 km north of the village site. A private farm called Wered ha-Galil and the settlement of Korazin, both built in 1983, are also on village land.

Village Today

The village site is covered with wild vegetation, piles of basalt stones, and date palm trees. Part of the surrounding land is used as pasture, and the other part is planted with fruit and walnut trees.

Source

Dr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains.
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