Al-Ghabisiyya
الغابسية El Ghabsiyeh[1] | |
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| Etymology: from ghabus, "dusky, ashen, grey"[1] | |
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  Al-Ghabisiyya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°00′02″N 35°09′00″E / 33.00056°N 35.15000°E | |
| Palestine grid | 164/267 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Acre |
| Date of depopulation | May 1948, 1949[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 11,771 dunams (11.8 km2 or 4.6 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 690[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Netiv HaShayara[5] |
Al-Ghabisiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in northern Palestine, 16 km north-east of Acre in present-day Israel. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and remains deserted.
- ^ a b Palmer, 1881, p. 42
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 40 Archived 2018-09-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #84. Also gives causes of depopulation
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 15