Arab al-Samniyya (Arabic: عرب السمنية), also known as Khirbat al-Suwwana, is a depopulated Palestinian village in the Western Galilee that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It was located in the Acre District of the British Mandate of Palestine, 19.5 km northeast of the city of Acre. In 1945 the village had a population of 200 Arabs and a total land area of 1,872 dunums.
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