Al-'Abisiyya
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| Arabic | العابسية |
| Name meaning | From personal name |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Coordinates | 33°11′55.39″N 35°37′58.75″E / 33.1987194°N 35.6329861°ECoordinates: 33°11′55.39″N 35°37′58.75″E / 33.1987194°N 35.6329861°E |
| Palestine grid | 209/289 |
| Population | 1220 (1945) |
| Date of depopulation | May 25, 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
| Current localities | Kfar Szold |
Al-'Abisiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 29, 1948 by The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 28.5 km northeast of Safad near to the Banyas River which the village relied on for irrigation.
The village contained the khirbas of Tall al-Sakhina, Tall al-Shari'a, and al-Shaykh Ghannam.
In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund'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. They till the land, which is arable round the village, there is a large supply of water and some trees near the village."
In the 1931 census of Palestine, during the British Mandate for Palestine, the village had a population of 609, all Muslims, in a total of 31 houses.
In 1945 the population was 1,220, with a total of 15,429 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Arabs used 4 dunums of land for citrus and bananas, 6,390 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 2,830 for cereals; while 17 dunams was built-up (urban) area.
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