Village memory · Palestine

Samakh

سمخ

Tiberias districtDepopulated 1948

Samakh was the largest village of the Tiberias subdistrict, 3,460 people on the southern shore of Lake Tiberias with a station on the line to the Hijaz railway and the border crossing to Mandate Syria. The Golani Brigade took it on 28 April 1948, ten days after the fall of Tiberias; Syrian and Iraqi forces briefly retook it in May. Only the ruins of the railway station and a water reservoir remain.

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