Yubla
| Yubla | |
|---|---|
| Arabic | يبلى |
| Also spelled | Hubeleth |
| Subdistrict | Baysan |
| Palestine grid | 194/220 |
| Population | 210[1][2] (1945) |
| Area | 5,165[1] dunams |
| Date of depopulation | 16 May 1948[3] |
| 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.[4]
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.[5]
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.[6]
British Mandate era
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.[6]
In the 1922 census of Palestine Yubla had a population of 73 Muslims,[7] increasing in the 1931 census to 88, still all Muslims, in 23 houses.[8]
The villagers were working mostly in agriculture. In 1945 the village had 210 Muslim inhabitants and the total land area was 5,165 dunams.[1][2] In 1944/45 a total of 25 dunums were used for citrus and bananas, 1,971 dunums were used for cereals, 37 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards,[6][9] while 12 were built-up (urban) land.[10]
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.[11][12]
In September 1948, local kibbutzniks argued for destroying the village.[13]
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.[14]
Today, the Israeli locality of Moledet is located on part of Yubla's former lands.[4] 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."[6]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 44
- 1 2 Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 7
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. xvii village #113. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- 1 2 Welcome to Yubla, Palestine Remembered, retrieved 2007-12-06
- ↑ Khalidi, 1992, pp. 65-66
- 1 2 3 4 Khalidi, 1992, p.66
- ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 31
- ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 81
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 85
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 135
- ↑ Morris, 2004, pp. 261 -262; note #808
- ↑ Morris, 2004, pp. 308 #808
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. 357
- ↑ Fischbach, 2012, p. 13
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Fischbach, Michael R. (2012). 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: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. 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