Khirbat Sa'sa'
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Khirbat Sa'sa' was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 28, 1948. It was located 15 km east of Haifa.
History
The Romans referred to the village as Kefar Sasai.[1]
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found at Kh. Sasa: "caves and foundations".[2]
British Mandate era
In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, it was counted as a part of Shefa-'Amr suburbs, together with 9 other villages, and together they had a total of 1197 inhabitants, all Muslim, in 234 houses.[3]
In the 1945 statistics Sasa was again counted among Shefa-'Amr suburbs, and it was noted with a population of 130 Muslims.[4][5][6][7]
Post 1948
In 1992 the village site was described: "Cactuses and fig trees can be found scattered about the site. There are a number of partially collapsed stone walls, one with a large arched opening. The surrounding lands are used as a grazing area."[8] Village ruins include building foundations, tombs, and cisterns.[1]
References
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- ↑ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 190
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 318
- ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 95
- ↑ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 15
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 49 Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 142 Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ↑ Khalidi, 1992, p. 190
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Bibliography
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External links
- Welcome To Sa'sa', Khirbat
- Khirbat Sa'sa', Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 5: IAA, Wikimedia commons
Template:Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War