Ghuraba, Safad
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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Ghuraba
| native_name = غرابة
| native_name_lang = ar
| settlement_type = Village
| pushpin_map = Mandatory Palestine | pushpin_map_caption = Location within Mandatory Palestine | image_map = {{Historical map series| name = Ghuraba|default=1|date1=1940s|date2=modern|date3=1940s with modern overlay|width=225}} | map_caption = A series of historical maps of the area around Ghuraba (click the buttons)
| pushpin_mapsize = 200
| coordinates = {{coord|33|07|17|N|35|38|45|E|type:city_region:PS|display=inline,title}}
| grid_name = Palestine grid
| grid_position = 210/280
| subdivision_type = Geopolitical entity
| subdivision_name = Mandatory Palestine
| subdivision_type1 = Subdistrict
| subdivision_name1 = Safad
| established_title1 = Date of depopulation
| established_date1 = May 28, 1948Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR16 xvi], village #21. Also gives cause of depopulation.
| established_title2 = Repopulated dates
| population_as_of = 1945
| population_total = 220Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p09.jpg 9]
| blank_name_sec1 = Cause(s) of depopulation
| blank_info_sec1 = Fear of being caught up in the fighting
| blank3_name_sec1 = Current Localities
| blank3_info_sec1 = GonenKhalidi, 1992, p. 452
}}
Ghuraba ({{langx|ar|غرابة}}) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 28, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 22 km northeast of Safad.
History
=British mandate era=
In the 1931 census of Palestine, during the British Mandate for Palestine, the village had a population of 124 Muslims, in a total of 27 houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 106]
By the 1945 statistics the population was 220 Muslims, with a total of 2,933 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Safad/Page-069.jpg 69]. Of this, Arabs used 2,928 dunams for plantations and irrigable land,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Safad/Page-119.jpg 119] while a total of 47 dunams was non-cultivable area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Safad/Page-169.jpg 169]
=1948, aftermath=
After fighting broke out nearby on 1 May, 1948, many villagers fled.Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA249 249] By late June, the Haganah Intelligence reported that there were "concentrations of Arab refugees" in Ghuraba.Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA252 252]
In 1951 Gonen was established on Ghurabah land.
In 1992 the village site was described: "The stones of ruined houses are strewn across the fenced-in site. Segments of a few stone walls still stand. The site and the surrounding land are used for grazing."
References
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book|title=Village Statistics, April, 1945 |url=http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/Hebrew/library/Pages/BookReader.aspx?pid=856390|author=Department of Statistics|year=1945|publisher=Government of Palestine}}
- {{cite book|title=Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html|first=S.|last=Hadawi|author-link=Sami Hadawi|year=1970|publisher=Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center}}
- {{cite book|title=All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ |first=W.|last=Khalidi|author-link=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies|isbn=0-88728-224-5}}
- {{cite book | editor = Mills, E. | title = Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas |url=https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas | publisher = Government of Palestine | location = Jerusalem | year = 1932}}
- {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C |first=B. |last=Morris |author-link=Benny Morris |year=2004 |title=The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited|isbn=978-0-521-00967-6 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}
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External links
- [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Safad/Ghuraba/index.html Welcome To Ghuraba]
- [https://www.zochrot.org/en/village/49412 Ghuraba], Zochrot
- [http://www.villagesofpalestine.com/Ghuraba.htm Ghuraba], Villages of Palestine
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8367 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.04.jpg Wikimedia commons]
{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War}}
Category:Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War