Yubla
| Yubla | |
| Arabic | يبلى |
| Also Spelled | Hubeleth |
| Sub-district | Baysan |
| Population | 88 (1931) |
| Area | 5,165 dunums |
| Date of depopulation | 16 May 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
| Current localities | Moledet |
Yubla (Arabic: يبلى, known to the Crusaders as Hubeleth) was a Palestinian village, located 9 kilometers north of Bisan in present-day Israel. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[2]
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[edit] Location
The village was located 9 km north-northwest of Baysan, on the southern side of a natural, shallow valley through which the Wadi al-Tayyiba flowed.[3]
[edit] History
The village was known to the Crusaders as Hubeleth, and Khirbat Umm al-Su´ud, about 1,5 km southeast of the village contained rough stone enclosures and traces of walls. During the period of the British Mandate of Palestine the village was classified as a "hamlet" by the Palestine Index Gazetteer. Its houses were built along the roads, especially the one to the spring Ain Yubla, north of the village.[4]
The villagers were Muslims, working mostly in agriculture. In 1944/45 a total of 25 dunums were used for citrus and bananas, 1,971 dunums were used for cereals, while 37 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.[4]
[edit] 1948, and after
By the time Israel's 'Barak' troops arrived in the village on 7 June 1948, a house-to house search found the village to be completely empty.[5]
Kibbutz Bet ha-Shittah and the Gush Nuris settlements were given thousands of dunams of refugee land from Yubla and the neighbouring villages of al-Murassas, Kafra, Qumiya, and Zir'in by the Histadrut's Agicrultural Center in July and October 1948.[6]
Today, the Israeli locality of Moledet is located on part of Yubla's former lands.[2] Walid Khalidi notes of the former village that, "The site and part of the lands are fenced in by barbed wire and are used by Israelis as a cow pasture."[4]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii village #113. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ a b Welcome to Yubla, Palestine Remembered, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Baysan/Yubla/index.html, retrieved 2007-12-06
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p 65-66
- ^ a b c Khalidi, 1992, p.66
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. 262.
- ^ Fischbach, 2003, p. 13.
[edit] Bibliography
- Fischbach, Michael R (2003). Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-12978-5
- 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, 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 0-521-00967-7
[edit] External links
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