Summary
One of the four cities with an Arab population inside the borders of the Hebrew state in the 1948 Intelligence Service (Arab Section) report, listed with a normal-times population of 5,770 in the Tel-Hai district list, and one of the fallen centres whose fall, in the report’s causal scheme, produced large migration waves in the communities around it (The Emigration of the Arabs of Palestine in the Period 1/12/1947-1/6/1948, PDF p.1, 5, 12).
Details
- The report lists Safed among the centres whose fall produced many large migration waves: Tiberias, Safed, Samakh, Jaffa, Haifa and Acre (PDF p.5).
- Its annex records Safed’s evacuation on 10.5 as “Occupied”, its residents going to Beirut, Damascus and Huran, with a “Critical impact on the vicinity” (PDF p.13).
- In the following days the annex attributes the evacuation of Akbara, Zhahiriyya, Abil al-Qamh, Qaddita, Zuq a-Tahtani, Khalisa, Buwaiziyya, Sammu’i, Na’ima and Shawka to the fall of Safed or its impact (PDF p.13-14).
Related pages
The Emigration of the Arabs of Palestine in the Period 1/12/1947-1/6/1948, Tiberias, Haifa, Acre, Samakh