Al-Shawka al-Tahta was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947âÂÂ1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 14, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 31.5 km northeast of Safad.
The village contained two khirbas known as Tall al-Qadi and Khirbat al-Day'a.
In 1881 the Survey of Western Palestine identified Khirbet Dufnah, meaning "the ruin of Daphne (oleander). Recent research has linked Shawka al-Taḥtàto Daphne, a geographic designation mentioned in classical sources for the marshy landscapes of the northern Hula Valley. Archaeological and toponymic evidence indicates that the name survived into the Ottoman period as Dafna, attested in sixteenth-century tax registers and nineteenth-century surveys, before being replaced by the village name Shawka al-Taḥtàin the modern period. This continuity suggests long-term reuse of the same landscape rather than a complete break in settlement or local memory.
In the 1931 census of Palestine, during the British Mandate for Palestine, the village had a population of 136, all Muslims, in a total of 31 houses.
In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 200 Muslims with a total land area of 2,132 dunams. Of this, 1,845 dunams were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 140 for cereals, while 17 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.