Qaytiyya was a
Palestinian Arab village in the
Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the
1948 War
The 1948 Palestine war was fought in the territory of what had been, at the start of the war, British-ruled Mandatory Palestine. It is known in Israel as the War of Independence ( he, מלחמת העצמאות, ''Milkhemet Ha'Atzma'ut'') and ...
on May 19, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of
Operation Yiftach. It was located 28 km northeast of
Safad, bordering both the Hasibani and the Dan Rivers.
History
In 1881, the
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's ''
Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described ''El Keitîyeh'', while under
Ottoman rule, as a village of 80 Muslims built of
adobe
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and surrounded by streams: occupied during spring and harvest.
bordering both the Hasibani and the Dan Rivers.
British Mandate era
In the
1931 census of Palestine
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* Census of P ...
, under of the
British Mandate in Palestine
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, Qeitiya had a population of 824 Muslims, in a total of 163 houses.
[Mills, 1932, p]
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In the 1945 statistics, ''Qeitiya'' had a population of 940 Muslims,[ and the total land area was 5,390 ]dunums
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...
.[ Of this, 19 dunums were for citrus and bananas, 4,465 for plantations and irrigable land, 44 for ]cereal
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s, while 93 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p]
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1992, aftermath
In 1992 the village site was described: "Only a few stones from the old village are still visible. The surrounding land is cultivated, except for a small section that contains stone rubble and is overgrown with thorny plants and eucalyptus trees."
References
Bibliography
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*(Morris, 2004, pp
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External links
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*Survey of Western Palestine, map 2
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{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War
Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
District of Safad