Ghabbatiyya ( ar, غبّاطية) was a
Palestinian Arab
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hamlet in the
Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the
1948 Arab-Israeli War
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on October 30, 1948, under
Operation Hiram. It was located 12 km northwest of
Safad.
In 1945 it had a population of 60 Muslims.
[Khalidi, 1992, p.451]
History
In 1881 the PEF's '' Survey of Western Palestine'' found at Kh. Ghabbâti "foundations of walls and one olive press".
British mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine
The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922.
The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divisi ...
conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ‘’Ghabbatia’’ had a population of 9 Muslims
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abraha ...
.[Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p]
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In the 1945 statistics the population was 60 Muslims,[ with a total of 3,453 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.][Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p]
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Of this, 15 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 412 for cereals; while a total of 2,509 dunams was non-cultivable area.[Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p]
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1948, aftermath
Israeli forces occupied Ghabbatiyya on 30 October 1948.
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Villages of Palestine
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4
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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