Yubla
| Yubla | |
|---|---|
| Arabic | يبلى |
| Also spelled | Hubeleth |
| Subdistrict | Baysan |
| Palestine grid | 194/220 |
| Population | 88 (1931) |
| Area | 5,165 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | 16 May 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
| Current localities | Moledet |
Yubla (Arabic: يبلى, known to the Crusaders as Hubeleth) was a Palestinian village, located 9 kilometers north of Bisan in present-day Israel. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[2]
Location
The village was located 9 km north-northwest of Baysan, on the southern side of a natural, shallow valley through which the Wadi al-Tayyiba flowed.[3]
History
The village was known to the Crusaders as Hubeleth, and Khirbat Umm al-Su´ud, about 1,5 km southeast of the village contained rough stone enclosures and traces of walls. During the period of the British Mandate of Palestine the village was classified as a "hamlet" by the Palestine Index Gazetteer. Its houses were built along the roads, especially the one to the spring Ain Yubla, north of the village.[4]
The villagers were Muslims, working mostly in agriculture. In 1944/45 a total of 25 dunums were used for citrus and bananas, 1,971 dunums were used for cereals, while 37 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.[4]
1948, and after
By the time Israel's 'Barak' troops arrived in the village on 7 June 1948, a house-to house search found the village to be completely empty.[5]
Kibbutz Bet ha-Shittah and the Gush Nuris settlements were given thousands of dunams of refugee land from Yubla and the neighbouring villages of al-Murassas, Kafra, Qumiya, and Zir'in by the Histadrut's Agicrultural Center in July and October 1948.[6]
Today, the Israeli locality of Moledet is located on part of Yubla's former lands.[2] Walid Khalidi notes of the former village that, "The site and part of the lands are fenced in by barbed wire and are used by Israelis as a cow pasture."[4]
See also
- List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
References
Bibliography
- Fischbach, Michael R. (2003). Records of dispossession: Palestinian refugee property and the Arab–Israeli conflict (Illustrated ed.). Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-12978-7.
- 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.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-00967-7.
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Coordinates: 32°34′33″N 35°28′10″E / 32.57583°N 35.46944°E