--- title: "Al-Shuna – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Al-Shuna, Lebanon: Al-Shuna was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. Every way there from the planner, and what we have not yet researched." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-shuna" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-shuna.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Shuni_%28Jabotinsky_Park%29_in_Binyamina_01.JPG/1920px-Shuni_%28Jabotinsky_Park%29_in_Binyamina_01.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village in Safad, Mandatory Palestine · Lebanon # Al-Shuna Al-Shuna was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. ![Al-Shuna](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Shuni_%28Jabotinsky_Park%29_in_Binyamina_01.JPG/1920px-Shuni_%28Jabotinsky_Park%29_in_Binyamina_01.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Al-Shuna · Ovedc The place Al-Shuna was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was ethnically cleansed and depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 6 km south of Safad, overlooking the deep gorge of Wadi al-'Amud. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shuna), CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Al-Shuna **Airports:** Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 101 km · Damascus (DAM), 111 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 114 km\ - Beirut → Al-Shuna 222 km · quickest by air, 5h 13m · $80–120 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/beirut-to-al-shuna) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Beirut&to=Al-Shuna) - Amman → Al-Shuna 31 km · quickest by road, 45 min · JD2–2.5 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/amman-to-al-shuna) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Amman&to=Al-Shuna) - Damascus → Al-Shuna 189 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · $18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/damascus-to-al-shuna) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Damascus&to=Al-Shuna) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Al-Shuna) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Al-Shuna Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Al-Shuna. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Go next Safed is an ideal location for basing many day trips in the northern area of Israel. From [Wikivoyage: Safed](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Safed), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Petra and Wadi Musa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/petra) JO 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 287 km 2. [Wadi Rum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wadi-rum) JO 8 ways of moving, 23 sources 371 km 3. [Dahab](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dahab) EG 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 499 km 4. [Kastellorizo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kastellorizo) GR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 649 km 5. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,022 km If you know how people move in Al-Shuna – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cal-shuna&title=Al-Shuna&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fal-shuna), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Al-Shuna Al-Shuna is 52 km from [Irbid](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/irbid), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - ['Akbara](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/akbara) Arabian village in northern Israel near Safed 3.7 km - [Kahal](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kahal) human settlement in Israel 2.8 km - [Yaquq](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/yaquq) depopulated Palestinian village in Tiberias, Mandatory Palestine 2.7 km - [Al-Qudayriyya](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-qudayriyya) village in Safad, Mandatory Palestine 2 km - [Huqoq](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/huqoq) ancient Jewish village in northern Israel 2.7 km [The place page for Al-Shuna](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/al-shuna) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Lebanon](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-LB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-shuna, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt