Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa

Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa
الغبية الفوقا
Ghubayya al Fauqa[1]
Village
Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa in historical context
Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa in historical context
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Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa
Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°36′5″N 35°9′5″E / 32.60139°N 35.15139°E / 32.60139; 35.15139
Palestine grid164/223
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictHaifa
Date of depopulationApril 8–9, 1948[1]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total1,130[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary 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]

  1. ^ a b 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 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
  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: 18. doi:10.1080/13530194.2023.2279340.