Yubla
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| Yubla | |
| Arabic | يبلى |
| Also Spelled | Hubeleth |
| District | Baysan |
| Population | 88 (1931) |
| Jurisdiction | 5,165 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | 7 June 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
| Current localities | Moledet, Israel |
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.[1] 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.[2]
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 Zi'rin by the Histadrut's Agicrultural Center in July and October of 1948.[3]
Today, the Israeli locality of Moledet is located on part of Yubla's former lands.[1] 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."[1]
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[edit] Bibliography
- Fischbach, Michael R (2003). Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231129785
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521009677
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