Qabba'a

Qabba'a
قبّاعة
Village
Etymology: "large-headed"[1]
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Qabba'a is located in Mandatory Palestine
Qabba'a
Qabba'a
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°59′55″N 35°32′17″E / 32.99861°N 35.53806°E / 32.99861; 35.53806
Palestine grid200/267
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 26, 1948[4]
Area
[3]
 • Total13,817 dunams (13.817 km2 or 5.335 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total460[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces

Qabba'a was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 26, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 6 km northeast of Safad.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 76
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village # 48. Also gives the cause of depopulation.