Al-Qubab

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Al-Qubab
Al-Qubab is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Qubab
Arabic
Also Spelled Qubab
District Ramla
Coordinates 31°51′59.90″N 34°57′15″E / 31.866639°N 34.95417°E / 31.866639; 34.95417Coordinates: 31°51′59.90″N 34°57′15″E / 31.866639°N 34.95417°E / 31.866639; 34.95417
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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History

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.

References

  1. ^ Morris, 2004, p xix village #240. Also gives cause of depopulation
  2. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 406
  3. ^ E. Mills, ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine. p. 22. 

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