Zawiya, Safad
Al-Zawiya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 24, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 23 km northeast of Safad.History
In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ez Zawiya had a population of 590 Muslims, in a total of 141 houses.
In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 760. with a total of 3,958 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 3,593 dunums were used for cereals; while a 195 dunams were classified as built-up, urban areas.
Zawiya became depopulated on May 24, 1948, after expulsion by the Zionist forces.
