Wadi Qabbani وادي قباني | |
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Location withinMandatory Palestine | |
Coordinates:32°21′44″N34°55′18″E / 32.36222°N 34.92167°E /32.36222; 34.92167 | |
Palestine grid | 142/196 |
Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
Subdistrict | Tulkarm |
Date of depopulation | Not known[3] |
Area | |
• Total | 9,812 dunams (9.812 km2 or 3.788 sq mi) |
Population (1945) | |
• Total | 320[1][2] |
Current Localities | HaOgen[4] |
Wadi Qabbani (Arabic:وادي قباني), also known asKhirbat ash Sheik Husein (Arabic:خربة الشيخ حسين) was aPalestinian Arab village in theTulkarm Subdistrict. It was probably depopulated during the1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 1, 1948, as part ofOperation Coastal Clearing. It was located 12 km northwest ofTulkarm. The name, Qabbani came from the Lebanese family who owned most of the land.
In the1945 statistics the village had a total population of 210 Muslims[1] with a total of 9,812 dunams of land.[2]
The land ownership of the village before occupation indunams:[1][2]
Owner | Dunams |
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Arab | 427 |
Jewish | 9,276 |
Public | 109 |
Total | 9,812 |
Of this, Arabs used 408dunums forcereals,[5] while a total of 1,301 dunams were classified as non-cultivable land.[6]
Types of land use indunams in the village in 1945:[5][6]
Land Usage | Arab | Jewish | Public |
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Citrus and bananas | - | 46 | - |
Irrigated and plantation | - | - | - |
Cereal | 408 | 8,057 | - |
Urban | - | - | - |
Cultivable | 408 | 8,103 | - |
Non-cultivable | 19 | 1,173 | 109 |