Yubla ( ar, يبلى, known to the

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as Hubeleth), was a

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

village, located 9 kilometers north of Bisan in present-day

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Location

The village was located 9 km north-northwest of

Baysan Beit She'an ( he, בֵּית שְׁאָן '), also Beth-shean, formerly Beisan ( ar, بيسان ), is a town in the Northern District of Israel. The town lies at the Beit She'an Valley about 120 m (394 feet) below sea level. Beit She'an is be ...

, on the southern side of a natural, shallow valley through which the Wadi al-Tayyiba flowed.

History

The village was known to the

as ''Hubeleth'', and Khirbat Umm al-Su´ud, about 1,5 km southeast of the village contained rough stone enclosures and traces of walls.Khalidi, 1992, p. 66

Ottoman era

In 1882, the PEF's ''

Survey of Western Palestine The PEF Survey of Palestine was a series of surveys carried out by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) between 1872 and 1877 for the Survey of Western Palestine and in 1880 for the Survey of Eastern Palestine. The survey was carried out after the ...

'' found at ''Kh. Yebla'': "Heaps of stones. No indications of date."

British Mandate era

During the period of the

British Mandate of Palestine British Mandate of Palestine or Palestine Mandate most often refers to: * Mandate for Palestine: a League of Nations mandate under which the British controlled an area which included Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan. * Mandatory P ...

the village was classified as a "

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" by the ''Palestine Index Gazetteer''. Its houses were built along the roads, especially the one to the spring Ain Yubla, north of the village. In the 1922 census of Palestine Yubla had a population of 73 Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 88, still all Muslims, in 23 houses. The villagers were working mostly in agriculture. In the 1945 statistics the village had 210 Muslim inhabitants and the total land area was 5,165 dunams. In 1944/45 a total of 25 dunums were used for

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and bananas, 1,971 dunums were used for cereals, 37 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, while 12 were built-up (urban) land.

1948, and after

By the time

's '

Barak Barak ( or ; he, בָּרָק; Tiberian Hebrew: '' Bārāq''; ar, البُراق ''al-Burāq'' "lightning") was a ruler of Ancient Israel. As military commander in the biblical Book of Judges, Barak, with Deborah, from the Tribe of Ephrai ...

' troops arrived in the village on 7 June 1948, a house-to house search found the village to be completely empty.Morris, 2004, pp.
261
-262; note #808Morris, 2004, pp.
308 #808
/ref> In September 1948, local kibbutzniks argued for destroying the village.Morris, 2004, p
357
/ref> Following the war the area was incorporated into the State of Israel. Kibbutz

Beit HaShita Beit HaShita ( he, בֵּית הַשִּׁטָּה, lit. ''House of the Acacia'') is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located between Afula and Beit She'an, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. As of it had a population of . ...

and the Gush Nuris villages were given thousands of dunams of land from Yubla and the neighbouring villages of

al-Murassas Al-Murassas ( ar, المرصص), was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 War on May 16, 1948. The village was attacked as part of Operation Gideon. History In 159 ...

, Kafra, Qumiya, and

Zir'in Zir'in ( ar, زرعين, also spelled ''Zerein'') was a Palestinian Arab village of over 1,400 in the Jezreel Valley, located north of Jenin. Identified as the ancient town of Yizre'el (Jezreel), it was known as Zir'in during Islamic rule, and w ...

by the Histadrut's Agicrultural Center in July and October 1948.Fischbach, 2012, p
13
/ref>

Moledet Moledet ( he, מולדת, ''Homeland'') was a minor right-wing political party in Israel. History Moledet was established by Rehavam Ze'evi in 1988. It won two seats in the Knesset elections later that year, taken by Ze'evi and Yair Sprinzak ...

was established 2 km north of the village site, on land which traditionally had belonged to Taibe.

Walid Khalidi Walid Khalidi ( ar, وليد خالدي, born 1925 in Jerusalem) is an Oxford University-educated Palestinian historian who has written extensively on the Palestinian exodus. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies, establish ...

notes of the former village that, "The site and part of the lands are fenced in by barbed wire and are used by

i as a cow pasture." In 1992 the village site was described: "The site and part of the lands are fenced in by barbed wire and are used by Israelis as a cow pasture. A number of tall date palms, some almond trees, and cactuses grow near the village stream."

References

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