Ghabbatiyya

Ghabbatiyya
غبّاطية
Ghabbatiya[1]
Village
Etymology: Kh. Ghabbâtî, the ruin of Ghabbâti; perhaps from ghabit, “low-lying land”[2]
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Ghabbatiyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Ghabbatiyya
Ghabbatiyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°00′53″N 35°22′33″E / 33.01472°N 35.37583°E / 33.01472; 35.37583
Palestine grid185/268
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationOctober 30, 1948[1]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
60[3]

Ghabbatiyya (Arabic: غبّاطية) was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 30, 1948, under Operation Hiram. It was located 12 km northwest of Safad.

In 1945 it had a population of 60 Muslims.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #61. Also gives cause of depopulation as "?"
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, pp. 6483
  3. ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
  4. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p.451