Zanghariya
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| Arabic | زُحلق/الزنغرية |
| Name meaning | Arab ez Zengharîyeh, the Zengharîyeh Arabs, p.n. |
| Also spelled | Zanghariya |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Coordinates | 32°56′29″N 35°35′10″E / 32.94139°N 35.58611°ECoordinates: 32°56′29″N 35°35′10″E / 32.94139°N 35.58611°E |
| Palestine grid | 205/260 |
| Population | 840 (1945) |
| Area | 27,918 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | May 4, 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Secondary cause | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Elifelet |
Al-Zanghariyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948 under Operation Matate. It was located 8.5 km southeast of Safad, near Wadi al-Ghara. The village was later burned and destroyed on June 17, 1948.
The village was named after the 'Arab al-Zanghariyya Bedouin tribe, who first used the village as a camping site.
In 1838, in the Ottoman era, ez-Zenghariyeh was noted as an Arab tribe, within the Government of Safad.
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Zangharia had a population of 374 Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 526 Muslims, in a total of 97 houses.
In 1945, the village had a total population of 840 Muslims with a total of 27,918 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 7,265 dunums were for cereals; while a total of 20,653 dunams was classified as uncultivable.
Al-Zanghariyya became depopulated on May 4, 1948, during Operation Matate (lit. "Operation Broom"). On May 5, 1948, the Haganah "blew up most of the houses and burned the tents of Kedar’ between Tabigha and the Buteiha, where the Jordan enters the sea; some 15 Arabs were killed and the rest fled to Syria."
On May 5, 1948, Palmah sappers methodically blew up more than 50 houses in Zanghariya and other villages in the area.
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