Bayt Naqquba
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Bayt Naqquba (Arabic: بيت نقّوبة, Hebrew: בית נקובא, also spelled Bait Naqquba) was a Palestinian village in British Mandate Palestine, located 9.5 kilometers west of Jerusalem, near Abu Ghosh. Before Palmach and Haganah troops occupied the village during Operation Nachshon on April 11, 1948, approximately 300 Palestinian Arabs lived there.[5] After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, a moshav named Beit Nekofa was founded close to the site by Jewish immigrants from Yugoslavia. In 1962, residents of Bayt Naqubba built a new village named Ein Naqquba, south of Beit Nekofa.[5]
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Bayt Naqquba
بيت نقّوبة Beit Nakuba | |
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Etymology: The house of the mountain pass[1] | |
Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
Coordinates: 31°48′11″N 35°07′33″E | |
Palestine grid | 161/134 |
Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
Subdistrict | Jerusalem |
Date of depopulation | early April 1948[2] |
Area | |
• Total | 2,979 dunams (2.9 km2 or 1.1 sq mi) |
Population (1948[3]) | |
• Total | 278 |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Current Localities | Beit Nekofa[4] |
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