Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa

Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa
Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa
Arabic
Also Spelled	Ghubayya al Fauqa
Sub-district	Haifa
Coordinates	32°36′5.4″N 35°9′4.75″E
Population	1130 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	April 8–9, 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current localities	Mishmar ha-'Emeq

Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 8, 1948 during the Battle of Mishmar ha-'Emeq. It was located 28 km southeast of Haifa.

The population in 1945 was 1,130. al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa shared an elementary school built by the Ottomans in 1888 with the nearby villages of al-Ghubayya-al-Tahta and al-Naghnaghiyya. The school was later closed during the British Mandate period. The village had its own mosque.

References

Bibliography

• Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center 
• Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0-88728-224-5 
• Morris, Benny (2004), The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6 
• al-Qawuqji, Fauzi (1972): Memoirs of al-Qawuqji, Fauzi in Journal of Palestine Studies
  • "Memoirs, 1948, Part I" in 1, no. 4 (Sum. 72): 27-58., dpf-file, downloadable
  • "Memoirs, 1948, Part II" in 2, no. 1 (Aut. 72): 3-33., dpf-file, downloadable

External links

• Welcome To al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa
• al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
• Al-Ghubayya Al-Fouqa, from Dr. Moslih Kanaaneh
• Remembering al-Ghubayyat, booklet about the al-Ghubayyat villages, 03/2010
• Tour to the al-Ghubayyat villages, by Umar Ighbariyye, 20.3.2010, Zochrot