Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta الغبية التحتا | |
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Village | |
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Location withinMandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates:32°36′27″N35°8′38″E / 32.60750°N 35.14389°E /32.60750; 35.14389 | |
| Palestine grid | 163/223 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Haifa |
| Date of depopulation | 8–9 April 1948[3] |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 1,130[1][2] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault byYishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Midrakh Oz[4] |
Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta was aPalestinian Arab village in theHaifa Subdistrict, located 28 km southeast ofHaifa. It was depopulated during the1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 8, 1948, under theBattle of Mishmar HaEmek.
The village was partly inhabited byTurkmens.[5]

Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta shared an elementary school founded by the Ottomans in 1888 with the villages ofal-Ghubayya-al-Fawqa andal-Naghnaghiyya. The school was closed during theBritish Mandate rule.
In the1922 census of Palestine, conducted by theBritish Mandate authorities,Ghabba al-Tahta had a population of 79Muslims.[6]In the1931 census, the two al-Ghubayya village were counted together, the total population was 200 Muslims, in 38 houses.[7]
In the1945 statistics the population was counted with the neighbouringAl-Ghubayya al-Fawqa andal-Naghnaghiyya, and together they had a population of 1,130 Muslims,[1] with a total of 12,139dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[2] Of this, 209 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 10,883 for cereals,[8] while a total of 1,047 dunams were non-cultivable land.[9]
In addition to agriculture, residents practicedanimal husbandry which formed was an important source of income for the town. In 1943, they owned 140 heads ofcattle, 10goats over a year old, 27horses, 19donkeys, 523fowls, and 116pigeons.[10]
On 8 and 9 April 1948, theHaganah raidedal-Ghubayya al-Fawqa, al-Ghubayya-al-Tahta andKhirbet Beit Ras, and proceeded to blow them up in the following days.[11]