Al-Qubayba

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al-Qubayba
Arabic القبية
Also Spelled Qubeiba
District Hebron
Population 1,060 (1945)
Jurisdiction 11,801 dunams (12.0 km²)
Date of depopulation 28 October 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation Military assault by Jewish forces
Current localities Lachish
al-Qubayba was also a Palestinian village in the Ramla District, depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

al-Qubayba (also: Qubeiba, Arabic: القبية‎) was a Palestinian village, located 24 kilometers northwest of Hebron.

Known in Crusader times as Deirelcobebe, the ruins of the ancient Canaanite city of Lachish lay adjacent to the village,[1] which was subject to extensive archaeological excavations by the British Mandatory authorities in Palestine, and by Israeli authorities subsequent to its capture during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[2]

Though defended by Egyptian forces, al-Qubayba was overtaken by Israeli forces during Operation Yoav on 28 October 1948.

Of the village mosque, an elementary school, and more than 141 houses that made up al-Qubayba, Walid Khalidi notes that all that remains to mark the site in contemporary times are cactuses and a handful of olive trees.[2]

The Israeli locality of Lakhish is located on the village's former lands.[2]

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A woman's thob (loose fitting robe with sleeves), from Qubeiba dated to about 1910 forms part of the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) collection at Santa Fe. The dress is a collage of different fabrics, textures and colors. The front and the upper half of the back are of black cotton. The chest panel, the side panels and the lower back of the skirt are handwoven indigo linen. Colorful silk cross-stitch embroidery, in red, violet, orange, yellow, green and black, create an effect described as "particularly gay, twinkling"[1] The qabbeh (square chest panel) is embroidered with the qurunful ("clove") motif, and it has vertical rows of eight-pointed stars, called qamr ("moons"), and a row of the mushut ("combs") pattern. There are eight embroidered columns on each side panel of the dress. The patterns which are used are fanajin qahweh ("coffee cups"), khem-el-basha ("the pashas tent"), irq el-ward ("rose branch"), and miftah Khalil ("key of Hebron"). There is also a pattern (with flowers, moons, trees, tents and tiles) not seen anywhere else in the MOMA collection. Finally, there is also some embroidery at the wrists.[1]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Stillman, p.57.
  2. ^ a b c Welcome to Al-Qubayba. Palestine Remembered. Retrieved on 2007-12-06.

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