Al-Shawka al-Tahta

Al-Shawka al-Tahta الشوكة التحتا
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Shawka al-Tahta (click the buttons)
Al-Shawka al-Tahta Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°14′19″N 35°38′12″E / 33.23861°N 35.63667°E / 33.23861; 35.63667
Palestine grid	209/293
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Safad
Date of depopulation	May 14, 1948[2]
Area
• Total	2,132 dunams (2.132 km2 or 527 acres)
Population  (1945)
• Total	200[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Fear of being caught up in the fighting

Al-Shawka al-Tahta was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 14, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 31.5 km northeast of Safad.