Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

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This article is about the former Palestinian village in Tiberias Sub-district. For the former Palestinian village in Haifa Sub-district, see Abu Shusha, Haifa. For the former Palestinian village in Ramle Sub-district, see Abu Shusha.
Ghuwayr Abu Shusha
Subdistrict Tiberias
Palestine grid 197/251
Area 12,098 dunams
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 Tiberias Subdistrict. 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.

References

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

Bibliography

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