Qabba'a
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| Qabba'a | |
 Qabba'a
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| Arabic | |
| Sub-district | Safad |
| Coordinates | 32°59′55.40″N 35°32′16.55″E / 32.998722°N 35.5379306°ECoordinates: 32°59′55.40″N 35°32′16.55″E / 32.998722°N 35.5379306°E |
| Population | 460 (1945) |
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| Date of depopulation | May 26, 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Qabba'a was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 26, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 6 km northeast of Safad.
A 1596 census revealed a population of 99. In 1945 it had a population of 460.
[edit] References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village # 48. Also gives the cause of depopulation.
[edit] Bibliography
- Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html
- 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
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6. http://books.google.com/?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=benny+morris&q.
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