| Arab al-Safa | |
| Arabic | عرب الصفا |
| District | Baysan |
| Coordinates | 32°26′27.1″N 35°32′15.61″E / 32.440861°N 35.5376694°ECoordinates: 32°26′27.1″N 35°32′15.61″E / 32.440861°N 35.5376694°E |
| Population | 754 (1948) |
| Area | |
| Date of depopulation | 20 May 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
Arab al-Safa (Arabic: عرب الصفا) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan . It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was located 7.5 km south of Baysan.
The village was destroyed on May 20, 1948 by the Israeli Golani Brigade under Operation Gideon.
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According to a land census report in 1944, land ownership in the village (in dunams) was as follows:
By 1944, a total of 7,449 dunums were used for cereals.[2][3] The Arab population were occupied mainly in cereal farming. The village had a population of 225 in 1922. This had grown to 754 by 1948 with 150 houses.
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