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Welcome To Khubbayza - خبيزة (ח'ביזה)

District of Haifa
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 12, 1948
Distance From District 29.5 (km) South East of Haifa
Elevation 175 (meters)
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Pre-Nakba Aerial View
Map Location See location #40 on the map

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Military Operation During or soon after the battle form Mishmar Ha'emek.
Attacking Units Most likely Irgun Zvai Leumi (IZL) troops, which is the same terror gangs that committed several massacres against many Palestinians. See Dayr Yasin for example
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing Khubbayza inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 2,828
Jewish 2,024
Public 2
**Total 4,854
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 65 3
Olive Groves 20 0
Planted W/ Cereal 2,295 2,021
Built up 11 0
Arable 2,360 2,024
Non-Arable 459 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 140
1931 209
1945 290
1948 336
Est. Refugees 1998 2,066
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 42
1948 67
Near By Townswhat's new
Daliyat al-Rawha'
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Umm al-Shawf  ←
Khubbayza
→   al-Butaymat
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Kafr Qari'
Archeological Sites Khirbat al-Kalba (probably named after the Bedouin tribe of Bani Kalb), lay north of the village; it yielded traces of a human settlement.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 No settlements on village lands
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on hilly terrain that sloped toward the southwest, about 1 km south of Wadi al-Sindiyana. Secondary roads led north and south from the village to highways connecting the coast with the plain of Marj ibn Amir. Its name was the Arabic term for mallow, a wild plant cooked as a vegetable in Palestinian peasant cuisine. In the late nineteenth century, Khubbayza had an estimated 270 residents who cultivated 24 faddans of land (1 faddan = 100-250 dunums). The village was oriented along a northeast-southwest axis, with stone houses built close together. Its inhabitants were Muslims. They obtained their domestic water from several springs and wells within the village's boundaries, and earned their living primarily from agriculture, growing grain and vegetables. In 1944/45 a total of 2,295 dunums was allotted to cereals; 65 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, 20 dunums of which were for olives. They also engaged in animal husbandry. Khirbat al-Kalba, probably named after the Bedouin tribe of Bani Kalb, lay north of the village; it yielded traces of a human settlement.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The village was probably the victim of an early Haganah raid launched in the first few weeks of the war. An attack on a village that the New York Times called 'Habassa near Haifa' occurred on 1 January 1948. No figures for casualties were given, but the report stated that the attack was similar to the massacre carried out the same day at nearby Balad al-Shaykh. The cycle of violence had begun when the Irgun Zvai Leumi (IZL) attacked a group of Palestinian workers at an oil refinery near Haifa on 30 December 1947.

The village was not occupied for several months, however. In the wake of the battle over the kibbutz of Mishrnar ha-Emeq , the Haganah proceeded to snap up a number of surrounding villages in mid-April 1948. In the following weeks, the IZL capitalized on these gains by attacking other villages in the same area. Khubbayza fell to IZL forces between 12 and 14 May. Most of the inhabitants of the region fled under mortar fire, according to IZL sources quoted by Israeli historian Benny Morris. But many were kept for a few days behind barbed wire and then expelled. It is not clear when Khubbayza was destroyed, but some villages in its vicinity were levelled by the Haganah after occupation and others were razed by the Jewish National Fund in June 1948.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands. The closest settlement is Even Yitzchaq, which was founded in 1945 on lands originally belonging to the village of al-Butaymat, about 1 km east of the village site.

Village Today

All that remains on the site is stone debris, scattered among thorny bushes, grass, and cactuses. Part of the surrounding land is cultivated and the rest serves as pasture.

Source

Dr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains.
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