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Welcome To Ghabbatiyya - غباطية (ע'באטיה)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Picture for Ghabbatiyya Village - Palestine: : موقع القرية من الجهة الشرقية - 1/6/2003
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date October 30, 1948
Distance From District 12 (km) North West of Safad
Elevation 875 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #49 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Hiram
Attacking Units Possibly the terror troops of Sheva' (Seventh) Brigade
Defenders Local militia & Arab Liberation Army
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing Ghabbatiyya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 2,381
Jewish 0
Public 552
**Total 2,933
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 15
Planted W/ Cereal 412
Arable 427
Non-Arable 2,506
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 9
1945 60
1948 70
Est. Refugees 1998 427
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Near By Townswhat's new
Sa'sa'
↑
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Hurfeich  ←
Ghabbatiyya
→   Sa'sa'
↓
Bayt Jann
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 No settlements on village lands

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a rocky hill between the peaks of Mount al-Jarmaq (1208 m) and Mount 'Adathir (1009 m), two of the highest mountains in Palestine. It was 2 km east of the Druze village of Hurfaysh. Three wadis passed next to the village, supplying it with water during the rainy season and making up part of its arable land during the dry season. Ghabbatiyya obtained additional surface water from a number of springs and a well. Classified as a hamlet by the Mandate-era Palestine Index Gazetteer, it was laid out in an east-west direction along the northern side of a secondary road that linked it to other villages. This secondary road was connected to highways that led to Safad and the Jewish settlement of Nahariyya on the Mediterranean. The entire village population was Muslim, and the economy relied heavily on agriculture and animal husbandry. In 1944/45 a total of 412 dunums was allocated to cereals; 15 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Ghabbatiyya was occupied on 30 October 1948, during the second phase of Operation Hiram (see 'Arab al-Samniyya, Acre sub-disctrict ),just as forces on the eastern and western fronts converged in a pincer movement at nearby Sa'sa' around noon that same day. The following day, an Israeli army spokesman, quoted in the New York Times, said that several hundred of the area's Arab Liberation Army garrison were killed, and another several hundred taken prisoner. [M:xv; NYT:1/11/48; see M:217-19; T:323-25]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands.

Village Today

The site is deserted and covered with grass, a few fig trees, stones, and the ruins of stone houses. The walls of one destroyed house still stand. The surrounding land is used by Israelis for grazing and forestry, and woods cover nearby Mount 'Adathir.

Source

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