Al-Samra

The village had a mosque and several khirbas (ruined sites) including Khirbat al-Tawafiq and Khirbat Duwayraban.

In the early 19th century, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt noted it as the only village on the eastern shore of Lake Tiberias, and that it had some ancient buildings.Burckhardt, 1822, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/b22017355#page/278/mode/1up 278]-279, cited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 539

In 1838, Edward Robinson was told that the village, Khurbet es-Sumrah, was on the eastern shore of the lake.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/264/mode/1up 264], cited in Khalidi, 1992, pp. 539-540 The villagers were Muslim.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, Appendix 2, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/131/mode/1up 131], calling it el-Khirbet es-Saudah

In 1875, Victor Guérin found here large ruins, which he misidentified as Hippos.Guérin, 1880, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr01unkngoog#page/n323/mode/1up 310]-312

A population list from about 1887 showed es Samr (east shore) to have about 180 inhabitants; 20 Druze and 160 Muslims.Schumacher, 1888, p. [https://archive.org/stream/quarterlystateme19pale#page/n211/mode/1up 186]

In 1914, an Ottoman airplane, on its way from Istanbul to Cairo, crashed by the village. Two pilots were killed. There is an Ottoman memorial to the event, about 1,5 km east of the village site. Yüzbaşı Fethi Bey, one of the first pilots of the Ottoman Air Force, was one of the pilots killed.[http://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2014/03/17/letter-kibbutz-haon-fallen-flyers/ Letter from Kibbutz Ha’On: Fallen Flyers] Hadassah Magazine, 17 March 2014

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the population of Samra was 157 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Tiberias, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n41/mode/1up 39] increasing in the 1931 census to 237; 232 Muslims and 5 Baháʼís, in a total of 50 houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 84]

In the 1945 statistics, Es Samra had a population of 290; 280 Muslims and 10 classified as others, with 6,912 dunams of Arab-owned land. Of this, 30 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 21 for plantations and irrigable land, 6,828 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Tiberias/Page-123.jpg 123] while 23 dunams were classified as built-up area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Tiberias/Page-173.jpg 173]

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The village became depopulated on April 21, 1948.Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA186 186] note #179, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA275 275]Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA372 372], note #180, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA405 405]Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA513 513], notes #56, 57, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA539 539]

HaOn was established on village land, north of the village site, in 1949.

In 1992, Walid Khalidi described the village site: "Nothing remains of the village houses. A tourist resort, which consists of a few cabins and small houses, has been established on part of the village site. Other parts of the site are covered with trees. The surrounding land is cultivated by Israelis."

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100219035805/http://www.palestineremembered.com/Tiberias/al-Samra/index.html Welcome To al-Samra]
• [http://www.zochrot.org/en/village/49338 al-Samra], Zochrot

{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War}}

Category:Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War

Category:District of Tiberias