| Qaytiyya | |
| Other Name: | Qeitiya[1] |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Etymology: | El Keitîyeh, el Keitîyeh, from personal name[2] |
| Pushpin Map: | Mandatory Palestine |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
| Coordinates: | 33.1997°N 35.6128°W |
| Grid Name: | Palestine grid |
| Grid Position: | 207/289 |
| Subdivision Type: | Geopolitical entity |
| Subdivision Name: | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdivision Type1: | Subdistrict |
| Subdivision Name1: | Safad |
| Established Title1: | Date of depopulation |
| Established Date1: | May 19, 1948/June 1948 |
| Established Title2: | Repopulated dates |
| Population As Of: | 1945 |
| Population Total: | 940[3] [4] |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Cause(s) of depopulation |
| Blank Info Sec1: | Whispering campaign |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Secondary cause |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
| Blank3 Name Sec1: | Current Localities |
| Blank3 Info Sec1: | Kfar Blum,[5] possibly Beit Hillel |
Qaytiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 19, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 28 km northeast of Safad, bordering both the Hasibani and the Dan Rivers.
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described El Keitîyeh, while under Ottoman rule, as a village of 80 Muslims built of adobe and surrounded by streams: occupied during spring and harvest.[6] bordering both the Hasibani and the Dan Rivers.
In the 1931 census of Palestine, under of the British Mandate in Palestine, Qeitiya had a population of 824 Muslims, in a total of 163 houses.[7]
In the 1945 statistics, Qeitiya had a population of 940 Muslims,[3] and the total land area was 5,390 dunums.[4] Of this, 19 dunums were for citrus and bananas, 4,465 for plantations and irrigable land, 44 for cereals,[8] while 93 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[9]
In 1992 the village site was described: "Only a few stones from the old village are still visible. The surrounding land is cultivated, except for a small section that contains stone rubble and is overgrown with thorny plants and eucalyptus trees."[5]
