Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa explained

Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa
Native Name:الغبية الفوقا
Native Name Lang:ar
Other Name:Ghubayya al Fauqa[1]
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Mandatory Palestine
Pushpin Mapsize:200
Coordinates:32.6014°N 35.1514°W
Grid Name:Palestine grid
Grid Position:164/223
Subdivision Type:Geopolitical entity
Subdivision Name:Mandatory Palestine
Subdivision Type1:Subdistrict
Subdivision Name1:Haifa
Established Title1:Date of depopulation
Established Date1:April 8–9, 1948
Established Title2:Repopulated dates
Unit Pref:dunam
Population As Of:1945
Population Total:1130[2] [3]
Blank Name Sec1:Cause(s) of depopulation
Blank Info Sec1:Military assault by Yishuv forces

Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 8, 1948, during the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek. It was located 28 km southeast of Haifa.

The village was partly inhabited by Turkmens.[4]

History

During the early Ottoman era, in 1596 the village appeared under the name of Gubayya in the tax registers, being part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Sahil Atlit in the Sanjak (district) of Lajjun. It had a population of 39 households; an estimated 215 people, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, and water buffaloes; the taxes totalled 21,690 akçe.[5] [6]

Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa shared an elementary school built by the Ottomans in 1888 with the nearby villages of al-Ghubayya-al-Tahta and al-Naghnaghiyya. The school was later closed during the British Mandate period. The village had its own mosque.[6]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ghabba al-Fuqa had a population of 41 Muslims.[7] In the 1931 census, the two al-Ghubayya village were counted together, and the total population was 200 Muslims, in 38 houses.[8]

In the 1945 statistics the population was counted with the neighbouring al-Ghubayya-al-Tahta and al-Naghnaghiyya, and together they had a population of 1,130 Muslims,[2] with a total of 12,139 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[3] Of this, 209 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 10,883 for cereals,[9] while a total of 1,047 dunams were non-cultivable land.[10]

1948 and aftermath

On 8 and 9 April 1948, the Haganah raided al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa, al-Ghubayya-al-Tahta and Khirbet Beit Ras, and proceeded to blow them up in the following days.[11] The report on 9 April from the Golani Brigade stated that they were "preparing to destroy the villages when we evacuate them".[12] They destroyed al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa the following night.[13]

Following the war the area was incorporated into the State of Israel. By 1992 the kibbutz of Mishmar HaEmek was using some of al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa's former land as pastures.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #150. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  2. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 13
  3. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 47
  4. Marom . Roy . Tepper . Yotam . Adams . Matthew J. . 2024-01-03 . Al-Lajjun: a Social and geographic account of a Palestinian Village during the British Mandate Period . British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies . en . 18 . 10.1080/13530194.2023.2279340.
  5. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 157
  6. Khalidi, 1992, p. 160
  7. Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Haifa, p. 33
  8. Mills, 1932, p. 90
  9. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 90
  10. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 139
  11. Morris, 2004, p. 242; note #598; Morris, 2004, p. 296
  12. Morris, 2004, p. 346; note #28; Morris, 2004, p. 397
  13. Morris, 2004, p. 346; note #29; Morris, 2004, p. 397

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