Ghost Towns
Sa'sa'
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💥 War & expulsion

Sa'sa'

Vanished settlement · Lebanon

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
33.029, 35.394
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Why it was abandoned

💥 War & expulsion

Detected automatically from the text: Sa'sa' was a Palestinian village, located 12 kilometres northwest of Safed, that was depopulated by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

History

Sa'sa' was a Palestinian village, located 12 kilometres northwest of Safed, that was depopulated by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The village suffered two massacres committed by Haganah forces: one in mid-February 1948 and the other at the end of October the same year. Its place has been taken since 1949 by Sasa, an Israeli kibbutz.

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