Kawkaba

Kawkaba
كوكبا
Kaukaba
Etymology: Star, or mountain, or donjon[1]
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Kawkaba is located in Mandatory Palestine
Kawkaba
Kawkaba
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°37′51″N 34°39′46″E / 31.63083°N 34.66278°E / 31.63083; 34.66278
Palestine grid117/115
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictGaza
Date of depopulation12 May 1948[4]
Area
 • Total8,542 dunams (8.542 km2 or 3.298 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total680[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationInfluence of nearby town's fall
Current LocalitiesKokhav Michael[5]

Kawkaba (Arabic: كوكبا), known to the Crusaders as Coquebel, was a Palestinian Arab village that was occupied by Israel during Operation Yoav during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and depopulated.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 368
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 31
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 46
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village No. 304. Also gives cause for depopulation
  5. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 122