This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Suhmata (Arabic: سحماتا), was a Palestinian village, located 25 kilometres (16 mi) northeast of Acre.

[7][8] Underground water reservoir and a burial cave that apparently dates to the Roman period have been found at the village site.

[12] What was earlier termed a Crusader-era castle constructed in the village, which was rebuilt by Zahir al-Umar in the latter half of the 18th century, turned out to be the Byzantine church.

[17] In the Ottoman era, in 1838, Suhmata was found to be a village with a mixed population of Christians and Muslims, located in the el-Jebel district, west of Safad.

One of these hills is crowned by the remains of a fortress flanked by towers and built with simple rubble; it contained several subterranean magazines, a mosque, and various chambers.

"[19] In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "a village, built of stone, containing about 400 Moslems, situated on [a] ridge and [the] slope of [a] hill, surrounded by figs, olives and arable land; there are several cisterns and a spring near.

Meron Benvenisti writes that the committee chose this symbolic new name after determining that there was no known Jewish historical connection to the village of Suhmata.

The village committee also conducted a survey of the displaced population from Suhmata and their distribution inside Israel.