Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta
الغبية التحتا | |
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Village | |
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  Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°36′27″N 35°8′38″E / 32.60750°N 35.14389°E | |
| Palestine grid | 163/223 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Haifa |
| Date of depopulation | 8–9 April 1948[3] |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 1,130[1][2] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Midrakh Oz[4] |
Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict, located 28 km southeast of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 8, 1948, under the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek.
The village was partly inhabited by Turkmens.[5]
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 13
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 47 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #151. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 161
- ^ 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.