page_title: Sa'sa'
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Sa'sa' / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Sa'Sa' February 1948
context_page_description: Sa'sa' was a Palestinian village, located 12 kilometres northwest of Safed that was depopulated by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The village suffered two massacres committed by Haganah forces: one in mid-February 1948 and the other at the end of October the same year. Its place has been taken since 1949 by Sasa, an Israeli kibbutz.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities,  Sa'sa  had a population of 634; all Muslim,  increasing in the 1931 census to  840, still all  Muslims,  in  a total of 154 houses.
  The village had a small market-place in the village center with a few shops, as well as a mosque and two elementary schools, one for girls and one for boys.
  In  the 1944/45 statistics the village had a population of 1,130 Muslims and a total land area of 14,796 dunams.  Of this, 4,496 dunums were  used  for cereals; 1,404 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, while 48 dunams were built-up (urban) area.
caption: Sa'Sa' February 1948
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