Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta

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Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta shared an elementary school founded by the Ottomans in 1888 with the villages of al-Ghubayya-al-Fawqa and al-Naghnaghiyya. The school was closed during the British Mandate rule.

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ghabba al-Tahta had a population of 79 Muslims.Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Haifa, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n35/mode/1up 33]

In the 1931 census, the two al-Ghubayya village were counted together, the total population was 200 Muslims, in 38 houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 90]

In the 1945 statistics the population was counted with the neighbouring Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa and al-Naghnaghiyya, and together they had a population of 1,130 Muslims, with a total of 12,139 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 209 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 10,883 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Haifa/Page-090.jpg 90] while a total of 1,047 dunams were non-cultivable land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Haifa/Page-139.jpg 139] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924152715/http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Haifa/Page-139.jpg |date=2015-09-24 }}

In addition to agriculture, residents practiced animal husbandry which formed was an important source of income for the town. In 1943, they owned 140 heads of cattle, 10 goats over a year old, 27 horses, 19 donkeys, 523 fowls, and 116 pigeons.{{Cite journal |last=Marom |first=Roy |last2=Tepper |first2=Yotam |last3=Adams |first3=Matthew J. |date=2024-01-03 |title=Al-Lajjun: a Social and geographic account of a Palestinian Village during the British Mandate Period |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13530194.2023.2279340 |journal=British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies |language=en |page=20 |doi=10.1080/13530194.2023.2279340 |issn=1353-0194}}

On 8 and 9 April 1948, the Haganah raided al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa, al-Ghubayya-al-Tahta and Khirbet Beit Ras, and proceeded to blow them up in the following days.Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA242 242]; note #598; Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA296 296]

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• [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Haifa/al-Ghubayya-al-Tahta/index.html Welcome To al-Ghubayya al-Tahta]
• [http://www.zochrot.org/en/village/49410 al-Ghubayya al-Tahta], Zochrot
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8389 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.08.jpg Wikimedia commons]
• [http://www.alnakba.org/villages/haifa/ghubtahta.htm al-Ghubayya al-Tahta] from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120308111153/http://www.jalili48.com/pub/xENShowGallery.aspx?Sub=What_Remained_of_the_destroyed&Sub2=Al-Ghubayya_Al-Tahta Al-Ghubayya Al-Tahta]}} from Dr. Moslih Kanaaneh
• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120310055204/http://www.nakbainhebrew.org/index.php?id=775 Tour to the al-Ghubayyat villages]}}, by Umar Ighbariyye, 20.3.2010, Zochrot

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