Al-'Abisiyya

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Al-'Abisiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad.

It was located 28.5 km northeast of Safad near to the Banyas River which the village relied on for irrigation.

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described the village as "a collection of mud hovels in the plain of the Huleh, on the Nahr Banias containing seventy Moslems.

[5] In the 1945 statistics the population of Al-'Abisiyya (including nearby Azaziyat, Ein Fit and Khirbat es Summan) was 1,220 Muslims,[2] with a total of 15,429 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.

[8] In May, 1948, Sde Nehemia requested, "somewhat shamefacedly", 1,700 dunams of land from the newly depopulated village of Al-'Abisiyya.