title: Khirbat Sa'sa'
text: # Khirbat Sa'sa'
  
  Khirbat Sa'sa' was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 28, 1948. It was located 15 km east of Haifa.
  
  ## History
  
  The Romans referred to the village as Kefar Sasai.
  
  In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found at Kh. Sasa: "caves and foundations".
  
  ### British Mandate era
  
  In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, it was counted as a part of Shefa-'Amr suburbs, together with 9 other villages, and together they had a total of 1197 inhabitants, all Muslim, in 234 houses.
  
  In the 1945 statistics Sasa was again counted among Shefa-'Amr suburbs, and it was noted with a population of 130 Muslims.
  
  ### Post 1948
  
  In 1992 the village site was described: "Cactuses and fig trees can be found scattered about the site. There are a number of partially collapsed stone walls, one with a large arched opening. The surrounding lands are used as a grazing area." Village ruins include building foundations, tombs, and cisterns.
  
  