Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta

Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta
Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta
Arabic الغبية التحتا
Subdistrict Haifa
Coordinates 32°36′27″N 35°8′38″E / 32.60750°N 35.14389°E / 32.60750; 35.14389Coordinates: 32°36′27″N 35°8′38″E / 32.60750°N 35.14389°E / 32.60750; 35.14389
Palestine grid 163/223
Population 1130[1][2] (1945)
Date of depopulation 8–9 April 1948[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current localities Midrakh Oz[4]

Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict, located 28 km southeast of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 8, 1948, under the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek.

History

Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta in historical context

Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta shared an elementary school founded by the Ottomans in 1888 with the villages of al-Ghubayya-al-Fawqa and al-Naghnaghiyya. The school was closed during the British Mandate rule.

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ghabba al-Tahta had a population of 79 Muslims.[5] In the 1931 census, the two al-Ghubayya village were counted together, the total population was 200 Muslims, in 38 houses.[6]

In 1945 the population was counted with the neighbouring Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa and al-Naghnaghiyya, and together they had a population of 1,130 Muslims,[1] with a total of 12,139 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[2] Of this, 209 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 10,883 for cereals,[7] while a total of 1,047 dunams were non-cultivable land.[8]

1948 and aftermath

On 8 and 9 April 1948, the Haganah raided al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa, al-Ghubayya-al-Tahta and Khirbet Beit Ras, and proceeded to blow them up in the following days.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 13
  2. 1 2 Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 47
  3. ↑ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #151. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  4. ↑ Khalidi, 1992, p. 161
  5. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Haifa, p. 33
  6. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 90
  7. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 90
  8. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 139
  9. ↑ Morris, 2004, p. 242; note #598; Morris, 2004, p. 296

Bibliography

  • Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
  • Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
  • Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  • Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
  • Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
  • al-Qawuqji, Fauzi (1972): Memoirs of al-Qawuqji, Fauzi in Journal of Palestine Studies
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