| Al-Qubab | |
| Arabic | |
| Also Spelled | Qubab |
| District | Ramla |
| Coordinates | 31°51′59.90″N 34°57′15″E / 31.866639°N 34.95417°ECoordinates: 31°51′59.90″N 34°57′15″E / 31.866639°N 34.95417°E |
| Population | 1980 (1945) |
| Area | |
| Date of depopulation | July 15, 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Al-Qubab (arabic:القباب) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated in July 1948 during the Operation Dani led by the Yiftach Brigade.
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The Jerusalem chronicler Mujir al-Din al-'Ulaymi wrote that al-Qubab was a village within the administrative juristriction of al-Ramla in 1483 C.E.[2]
At the time of the 1931 census, al-Qubab had 382 occupied houses and a population of 1502 Muslims.[3]
On September 13, 1948, al-Qubab was mostly destroyed, although the school (founded in 1921) and few houses remain standing.
As of 1945 it had a population of 1,980.
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