Samakh, Tiberias
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Samakh was a Palestinian Arab village at the south end of Lake Tiberias in Ottoman Galilee and later Mandatory Palestine. It was the site of battle in 1918 during World War I.
Samakh from the air, 1931
Handley Page H.P.42, British four-engined long-range biplane airliner of Imperial Airways, at Samakh, October 1931.
The mosque at Samakh, between WWI and WW2
Samakh 1925, Degania in foreground
Al-Hamma, Tiberias
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Al-Hamma was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict, 12 kilometres southeast of Tiberias. It was situated on a narrow salient in the Yarmouk Valley bounded by Syria to the north and Tr
Samakh, Tiberias
…an important stop on the Jezreel Valley railway and Hejaz railway, being the last effective stop in the British Mandate of Palestine (the station at al-Hamma was geographically isolated). It had a population of 3,320 Arab Muslims and Arab Christians in 1945. The town's inhabitants fled after Haganah forces…
Former railway station of Al-Hamma, with a sign in Arabic reading "al-Hama".
Al-Hamma mosque, in 2011