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Al-Wayziyya

Al-Wayziyya
الويزية
Weiziya[1]
Village
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Al-Wayziyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Wayziyya
Al-Wayziyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°0′4″N 35°34′37″E / 33.00111°N 35.57694°E / 33.00111; 35.57694
Palestine grid204/267
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 1948[1]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total100[2][3]

Al-Wayziyya (Arabic: الويزية) was a Palestinian village in the Safad Subdistrict, located south east of Yarda. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 8.5 km northeast of Safad.

In 1945, the village had a population of 100. A shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh al-Wayzi was located in the village.

  1. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #49. Gives cause of depopulation as "?"
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine

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