Qumya

Qumya
قوميه
Kumieh, Qumiya
Village
Qumya, 1948
Qumya, 1948
Etymology: "Stature", or "Support"[1]
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Qumya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Qumya
Qumya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°33′55″N 35°23′45″E / 32.56528°N 35.39583°E / 32.56528; 35.39583
Palestine grid187/219
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictBaysan
Date of depopulation26 March 1948[4]
Area
[3]
 • Total
4,898 dunams (4.898 km2 or 1.891 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
440[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationFear of being caught up in the fighting
Current LocalitiesEin Harod (Ihud)[5]

Qumya (Arabic: قوميه), was a Palestinian village of 510 inhabitants when it was depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[6]

Located 12.5 kilometers north of Baysan, the village was assaulted by the forces of the Golani Brigade on 26 March 1948 during Operation Gideon, on the orders of Yosef Weitz, a representative of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). Its inhabitants fled in fear of being caught in the fighting.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 163
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 7
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 43
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #120. Also gives cause of depopulation
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference khalidi57 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Welcome to Qumya, Palestine Remembered, retrieved 2007-12-03