Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta

Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta
Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta
Arabic
Sub-district	Haifa
Coordinates	32°36′27″N 35°8′38″E
Population	1130 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	8–9 April 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current localities	Midrakh 'Oz

Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta 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 under the Battle for Mishmar Ha'emek. It was located 28 km southeast of Haifa.

In 1945 it had a population of 1,130. al-Ghubayya al-Tahta shared an elementary school founded by the Ottomans in 1888 with the villages of al-Ghubayya-al-Fawqa and al-Naghnaghiyya. The school was closed during the British Mandate rule.

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-Tahta
• al-Ghubayya al-Tahta from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
• Al-Ghubayya Al-Tahta from Dr. Moslih Kanaaneh
• Tour to the al-Ghubayyat villages, by Umar Ighbariyye, 20.3.2010, Zochrot