Wadi Qabbani
وادي قباني
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Wadi Qabbani is located in Mandatory Palestine
Wadi Qabbani
Wadi Qabbani
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°21′44″N 34°55′18″E / 32.36222°N 34.92167°E / 32.36222; 34.92167
Palestine grid142/196
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictTulkarm
Date of depopulationNot known[3]
Area
[2]
 • Total9,812 dunams (9.812 km2 or 3.788 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total320[1][2]
Current LocalitiesHaOgen[4]

Wadi Qabbani (Arabic: وادي قباني), also known as Khirbat ash Sheik Husein (Arabic: خربة الشيخ حسين) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was probably depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 1, 1948, as part of Operation Coastal Clearing. It was located 12 km northwest of Tulkarm. The name, Qabbani came from the Lebanese family who owned most of the land.

History

British Mandate era

In the 1945 statistics the village had a total population of 210 Muslims[1] with a total of 9,812 dunams of land.[2]

The land ownership of the village before occupation in dunams:[1][2]

Owner Dunams
Arab 427
Jewish 9,276
Public 109
Total 9,812

Of this, Arabs used 408 dunums for cereals,[5] while a total of 1,301 dunams were classified as non-cultivable land.[6]

Types of land use in dunams in the village in 1945:[5][6]

Land Usage Arab Jewish Public
Citrus and bananas - 46 -
Irrigated and plantation - - -
Cereal 408 8,057 -
Urban - - -
Cultivable 408 8,103 -
Non-cultivable 19 1,173 109

References

  1. ^ a b c Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 22
  2. ^ a b c d Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 77
  3. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #186. Gives both date and cause of depopulation as "Not known"
  4. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 566
  5. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 128
  6. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 178

Bibliography

  • Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  • Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.

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Palestinian Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus by subdistrict
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