Naghnaghiya

Naghnaghiya ( ar, النغْنغية, ''Al-Naghnaghiyya'') was a Palestinian Arab village, southeast of Haifa. It was depopulated before the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.Morris, 2004, p.
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Location

The village was on the north edge of a hill at the edge of a wadi bed, overlooking the Jezreel Valley and the Nazareth hills to the north and northeast. It was the smallest of a group of three villages (known collectively as al-Ghubayyat) located together; the others were Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa and Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta. Next to al- Naghnaghiya was an artificial mound that bore the same name. Two kilometers to the southeast, on the highway to Jenin was Tall al-Mutasallim, identified with Megiddo.Khalidi, 1992, p. 179

History

In 1888, during Ottoman rule, an elementary school was built that was shared by the three al-Ghubayyat villages.

British Mandate era

In the British Mandate of Palestine period, in the 1922 census of Palestine ''Al Naghnaghiyeh'' had a population of 272; all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 416, still all Muslims, in a total of 78 houses.Mills, 1932, p
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In the 1945 statistics the population of Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa, Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta and Naghnaghiya was 1,130, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p
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1948, and after

Before the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, on the night of the 12-13 April 1948, Naghnaghiya and the neighbouring village of al-Mansi were attacked by the Palmach, a Jewish militia. By 15 April, both villages had been depopulated, and they were then blown up by the Jewish militia forces in order to block the return of the villagers.

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, describing the village in 1992: "The remains of houses are scattered on the slope of one hill. The site, traversed by the Haifa-Megiddo highway and partly occupied by an Israeli soccer field, is difficult to identify."Khalidi, 1992, p. 180

See also

*Battle of Mishmar HaEmek
* Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel

References

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External links

Welcome to al-Naghnaghiyyaal-Naghnaghiyya
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*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8:
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Al-Naghnaghiyya photos
from Dr. Moslih Kanaaneh

from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center

{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War

Arab villages depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
District of Haifa