Naghnaghiya
| Naghnaghiya | |
|---|---|
  Naghnaghiya | |
| Arabic | النغْنغية |
| Also spelled | Al-Naghnaghiyya |
| Subdistrict | Haifa |
| Coordinates | 32°36′12.2″N 35°09′26.9″E / 32.603389°N 35.157472°ECoordinates: 32°36′12.2″N 35°09′26.9″E / 32.603389°N 35.157472°E |
| Palestine grid | 164/223 |
| Population | 416 (1931) |
| Area | 12,139 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | 12-13 April 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Naghnaghiya (Arabic: النغْنغية, Al-Naghnaghiyya) was a Palestinian Arab village, 28.5 kilometers (17.7 mi) southeast of Haifa.[2] It was depopulated before the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[3]
Location
The village was on the north edge of a hill at the edge of a wadi bed, overlooking the Jezreel Valley and the Nazareth hills to the north and northeast. It was the smallest of a group of three villages (known collectively as al-Ghubayyat) located together; the others were Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa and Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta. Next to al- Naghnaghiya was an artificial mound that bore the same name. Two kilometers to the southeast, on the highway to Jenin was Tall al-Mutasallim, identified with Megiddo[2]
History
In 1888, during Ottoman rule, an elementary school was built that was shared by the three al-Ghubayyat villages.[2]
1948, and after
Before the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, on the night of the 12-13 April 1948, Naghnaghiya and the neighbouring village of al-Mansi were attacked by the Palmach, a Jewish militia. By 15 April, Arabs had evacuated both villages, which were then blown up by the Jewish militia forces.[3]
According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, describing the village in 1992: "The remains of houses are scattered on the slope of one hill. The site, traversed by the Haifa-Megiddo highway and partly occupied by an Israeli soccer field, is difficult to identify."[4]
See also
- Battle of Mishmar HaEmek
- List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
References
Bibliography
- Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center
- Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
- Morris, Benny (2004), The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-00967-7
External links
- Welcome to al-Naghnaghiyya
- SWP map VIII, IAA
- SWP map 8, Wikimedia commons
- Al-Naghnaghiyya photos from Dr. Moslih Kanaaneh
- al-Naghnaghiyya from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
