Ghuraba () was a
Palestinian
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Arab
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Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years ...
village in the
Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the
1948 War on May 28, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of
Operation Yiftach. It was located 22 km northeast of
Safad
Safed (), also known as Tzfat (), is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elevation of up to , Safed is the highest city in the Galilee and in Israel.
Safed has been identified with (), a fortified town in the Upper Gal ...
.
In 1945 it had a population of 220 Muslims.
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History
British mandate era
In the 1931 census of Palestine
The 1931 census of Palestine was the second census carried out by the authorities of Mandatory Palestine. It was carried out on 18 November 1931 under the direction of Major E. Mills after the 1922 census of Palestine.
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, during the British Mandate for Palestine
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, the village had a population of 124 Muslims, in a total of 27 houses.[Mills, 1932, p]
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By the 1945 statistics the population was 220 Muslim
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s,[ with a total of 2,933 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, Arabs used 2,928 dunams for plantations and irrigable land, while a total of 47 dunams was non-cultivable area.
1948, aftermath
After fighting broke out nearby on 1 May, 1948, many villagers fled. By late June, the Haganah
Haganah ( , ) was the main Zionist political violence, Zionist paramilitary organization that operated for the Yishuv in the Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate for Palestine. It was founded in 1920 to defend the Yishuv's presence in the reg ...
Intelligence reported that there were "concentrations of Arab refugees" in Ghuraba.[Morris, 2004, p.]
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In 1951 Gonen
Gonen (, ''lit.'' Defended) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Finger of the Galilee near Kiryat Shmona, the kibbutz falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
Gonen was est ...
was established on Ghurabah land.[
In 1992 the village site was described: "The stones of ruined houses are strewn across the fenced-in site. Segments of a few stone walls still stand. The site and the surrounding land are used for grazing."]
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*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