Taytaba

Taytaba
Taytaba
Arabic
Also Spelled	Teitaba
Sub-district	Safad
Coordinates	33°00′48.75″N 35°28′43.05″E
Population	530 (1945)
Area	8,453 dunums
Date of depopulation	May, 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation

Taytaba was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948 under Operation Hiram. It was located 5 km north of Safad overlooking Wadi Taytaba, a tributary of Wadi Waqqas.

In 1945, the village had a total population of 530. Taytaba had an elementary school for boys, which was built during the British Mandate period, a mosque and khirbat al-Tasarif, which had fragments of an ancient tomb.

References

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.