Khirbat Zawiya

Place in Baysan, Mandatory Palestine

Al-Zawiya الزاوية
Etymology: The corner
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32°35′50″N 35°32′26″E / 32.59722°N 35.54056°E / 32.59722; 35.54056
Palestine grid	201/222
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Baysan
Date of depopulation	May 15th-18th, 1948

Al-Zawiya (Arabic: الزاوية), was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 15–18, 1948 under Operation Gideon. It was located 11.5 km northeast of Baysan. The Crusader Castle Belvoir is located close to the village.

History

It was classified as a hamlet in the Palestine Index Gazetteer.^[1]

References

^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 67

Bibliography

Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.