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Welcome To Qabba'a - قباعة (קבאעה)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 26, 1948
Distance From District 6 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation 500 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #57 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Yiftach (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)
Attacking Units The Palmach's First Battalion
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed, and only house walls and rubble left behind
Ethnically Cleansing Qabba'a inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 13,437
Jewish 0
Public 380
**Total 13,817
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 379
Olive Groves 650
Planted W/ Cereal 7,966
Built up 66
Arable 8,345
Non-Arable 5,406
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 99
19th century 150
1931 256
1945 460
1948 534
Est. Refugees 1998 3,277
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 44
1948 91
Near By Townswhat's new
Marus
↑
(N)
'Ammuqa  ←
Qabba'a
→   al-Wayziyya
            ↙
Biriyya
↓
Mughr al-Khayt
Schools One school
Places of Warship One mosque
Water Supply Water supplies ware drawn from four springs around the village
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Chatzor ha-Gelilit is nearby village lands
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Village Before Nakba

The village, surrounded by four springs, was linked by a dirt track to 'Ammuqa, another village less than 2 km to the northeast. It was situated on the northeastern slope of Mount Kan'an; it faced the northeast and overlooked the Ghawr (the low-lying area on the banks of the Jordan) between the al-Hula and Tiberias lakes. In 1596, Qabba'a was a village in the nahiya of Jira (liwa' of Safad) with a population of ninety-nine. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and olives, as well as on other types of produce and property, such as goats, beehives, and vineyards. [Hut. and Abd.:176] In the late nineteenth century, travelers reported that Qabba'a was a village built of masonry and situated on a ridge. Its 150 residents cultivated olives. [SWP (1881) I:198] The village houses were clustered closely together and made of stone and mud, although some were cut out of the rock. At its center stood a small marketplace, a mosque, and a school. The villagers, all of whom were Muslims, earned their living from agriculture, which was both rainfed and irrigated from a number of springs in the vicinity. They cultivated grain and vegetables on the level lands and grew grapes and figs, as well as olive trees on Mount Kan'an's slopes. They also raised cattle and sheep and kept bees. In 1944/45 a total of 7,659 dunums was allocated to cereals; 379 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

In mid-April 1948, units from the Palmach as well as other forces assembled in the northeast of the country and launched Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-disctrict). They took Qabba'a in the first half of the operation, according to the account given by Israeli historian Benny Morris, after subjecting it to a night of bombardment on 2 May. That night, Palmach units sporadically pounded the village with mortars, 'in order that in the end the Arabs would leave,' in the words of an officer in a participating unit. Morris adds that two nearby communities to the south, Fir'im and Mughr al-Khayt, were attacked in the same manner. [M:121]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands. Chatzor ha-Gelilit (201265), founded in 1953, is 3 km south of the village site.

Village Today

The stone debris of destroyed houses covers the site, where shrubs, grass, cactuses, and fig and pine trees grow. Most of the surrounding lands are cultivated by Israeli farmers, but some are wooded and others are used as pasture.

Source

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