Umm ash Shauf

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Umm al-Shawf
Umm al-Shawf is located in Mandatory Palestine
Umm al-Shawf
Umm al-Shawf
Arabic أُم الشوف
Also spelled Umm al Shauf
Subdistrict Haifa
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Palestine grid 154/217
Population 480 (1945[1])
Area 7,426[1] dunams
Date of depopulation May 12-14, 1948[2]
Cause(s) of depopulation Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current localities Givat Nili[3]

Umm al-Shawf or Umm ash Shauf (Arabic: أُم الشوف‎‎, Umm esh Shauf) was a Palestinian Arab village located 29.5 km south of Haifa, on the sloping section of Wadi al-Marah. It was depopulated as a result of a military assault between May 12-14, just before the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 49
  2. ↑ Morris, 2004, p.xviii village #157. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  3. ↑ Khalidi, 1992, p. 199

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