Samakh (town)

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For the Hebrew letter, see samekh.
Samakh
Arabic سمخ
District Tiberias
Population 3,320 (1945)
Jurisdiction 18,611 dunams
Date of depopulation 3 March-18 April 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation Explusion by Jewish forces
Cause 2 Fear of being caught up in the fighting
Current localities Massada, Sha'ar ha-Golan, Ma'agan, Tel Qatzir

Samakh was a Palestinian village located at the southern end of the Sea of Galilee in Palestine (now Israel). It had a population of 3,320 Arab Muslims and Arab Christians in 1945.[1] Defended by the Syrian Army the town's inhabitants were expelled by Haganah forces beginning in March of 1948, with the remainder leaving in the wake of an assault by the pre-state Israeli forces of the Golani Brigade on April 18, 1948.[2] Most of the former residents became internally displaced refugees in the Arab city of Nazareth in what is today northern Israel.[2]

There was battle there in World War I: see The Destruction of the Turkish Armies during the Battle of Megiddo.

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  1. ^ Appendix B - Non-Jewish Population within the Boundaries Held by the Israel Defence Army on 1.5.49 - as on 1.4.45
  2. ^ a b Welcome to Samakh. Palestine Remembered. Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
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