Zab'a

Zab'a
زبعة
Village
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Zab'a is located in Mandatory Palestine
Zab'a
Zab'a
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°33′15″N 35°32′55″E / 32.55417°N 35.54861°E / 32.55417; 35.54861
Palestine grid200/217
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictBaysan
Date of depopulationMay 12, 1948
Population
 (1945)
 • Total170[1][2]
Current LocalitiesBeyt Yosef[3] Doshen[3]

Zab'a (Arabic: زبعة), was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948, as part of Operation Gideon. It was located 5.5 km northeast of Baysan on Wadi Yubla or Wadi al-'Ashsha.[4]

  1. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 7
  2. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 44
  3. ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 67
  4. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 66