Welcome To al-Qubayba - القبيبة (אל-קביבה)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

October 28, 1948

Distance From District

24 (km) Northwest of Hebron

Elevation

250 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Pre-Nakba Aerial View

Map Location

See location #15 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Third stage of Operation Yo'av

Defenders

Egyptian Army

Acts of Terror

Thirty five people, including women and children, were massacred in the al-Dawayima caves few days after village occupation.

Exodus Cause

Military assault by Zionist troops

Village Temains

The village was completely defaced

Ethnically Cleansing

Some refugees were sheltered in al-Dawayima's caves, and some of them were killed during the al-Dawayima's massacre.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	11,801
Jewish	0
Public	111
**Total	11,912

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Olive Groves	44
Planted W/ Cereal	8,109
Built up	35
Arable	8,109
Non-Arable	3,768

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1596	182
1922	646
1931	800
1945	1,060
1948	1,230
Est. Refugees 1998	7,551

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	141
1948	216

Near By Towns

'Iraq al-Manshiyya ↖	Thikrin ↑ (N)	Bayt Jibrin ↗
	al-Qubayba	→ Idna
↙ Beersheba Bedouins	↓ Beersheba Bedouins	↘ al-Dawayima

Town's Name Through History

The Crusader referred to al-Qubayba by Deirelcobebe.

Schools

One elementary school

Places of Warship

One Mosque

Nearby Wadies & Rivers

Wadi Ghufr overlooked the village.

Water Supply

The village had two wells located to the northwest and the southwest, which used to provide al-Qubayba with its drinking water nneds.

Archeological Sites

al-Qubayba has an important archeological site known by Tall al-Duwayr (anceint Lachish) which was excavated several times by the British Mandate and Israeli authorities.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Lakhish

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a hilltop in the western foothills of the Hebron Mountains Wadi Ghufr ran along the western foot of the hill. It was linked by a secondary road to the Hebron-Bayt Jibrin-al-Majdal highway that passed to the northwest, and by other roads to adjacent villages. AI-Qubayba is identified with Deirelcobebe, a village during the Crusader period. In 1596 al-Qubayba was a village in the nahiya of Gaza (liwa' of Gaza), with a population of 182. It paid taxes on wheat, barley, sesame, fruit trees, goats, and beehives. In the late nineteenth century, al-Qubayba, a large village built of adobe bricks, was situated on rolling hills near a plain, surrounded by a barren and stony area. Its population consisted of Muslims. AI-Qubayba's houses were constructed of stone and mud and were set along narrow streets radiating from the center. The village had a school, a mosque, and a number of small shops. Two wells located northwest and southwest of it provided drinking water. In 1944/45 a total of 8,109 dunums was allotted to cereals.

Tall al-Duwayr , the site of the ancient town of Lachish, was next to the village, to the southwest. This town was sacked and rebuilt a number of times throughout its long history. Tall al-Duwayr was excavated by the British from 1932 to 1938 and by Israeli archaeologists in 1966 to 1968 and from 1973 to 1985. It is a large site occupied intermittently from the Chalcolithic period (fifth millenium B.C.) to the Persian period (end of the fourth century B.C.). The Canaanite city of Lachish was mentioned in the al-Amarna letters (dating from the fourteenth century B.C.). The area surrounding al-Qubayba was rich in evidence of earlier settlement; in addition to Tall al-Duwayr and the village site itself, there were at least fifteen archaeological sites on the 12,000 dunums of land that belonged to the village.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

In the third stage of Operation Yoav , the successes of the previous stages were used to occupy more territory. AI-Qubayba was captured around the same time as the massacre in nearby al-Dawayima, on 28 October 1948, probably by units of the Giv'ati or Har'el Brigades. No details are given about the fate of the villagers, but Israeli historian Benny Morris speaks of a 'panic flight' from al-Qubayba around the time of its occupation. No reason is given for the 'panic,' but it is unlikely that news of the al-Dawayima massacre would have reached al-Qubayba the same day. Morris also attributes the village's depopulation to the military assault on it.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Lakhish was established to the southwest of the site on village lands in 1955.

Village Today

The site is marked only by cactuses and a handful of olive trees. A neglected olive grove with its stone terraces still intact has been surrounded by fences.

Source

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

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