page_title: Al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Sawafir 1945 1:250,000
context_page_description: Al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 18, 1948, during the second stage of Operation Barak. It was located 30 km northeast of Gaza city.
context_section_description: According to the  1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya had a population of 572 inhabitants, all Muslims,  increasing in the  1931 census when  it  had an all-Muslim  population of 723  in 134 houses.
  By the 1945 statistics, this had increased to 1,030 Muslims,   with a total of 7,523 dunams of land.  Of this, 585 dunums were for plantations or irrigable land, 6,663 dunums were for cereals, while 585 dunams were  classified as un-cultivable land.
  al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya had shared a school with the other two Sawafir villages, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of about 280.
caption: Sawafir 1945 1:250,000
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