Bayt Naqquba

Bayt Naqquba ( _ar. بيت نقّوبة , also known as 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 1, 1948 approximately 300 Arabs lived there.cite web|title=Welcome to Bayt Naqquba|publisher=Palestine Remembered|accessdate=2007-12-04|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Jerusalem/Bayt-Naqquba/index.html] After the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, a moshav named Beit Nekofa was founded on the site by Jewish immigrants from Yugoslavia. In 1962, residents of Bayt Naqubba built a new village with the same name south of Beit Nekofa.cite web|title=Welcome to Bayt Naqquba|publisher=Palestine Remembered|accessdate=2007-12-04|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Jerusalem/Bayt-Naqquba/index.html]

History

Like the people of Abu Ghosh, the inhabitants of Bayt Naqquba were known for their friendly relations with their Jewish neighbors in Kibbutz Kiryat Anavim. [Benny Morris (1994): "1948 and After." ISBN 0-19-827929-9. (Chapter 8, p. 257-289: The Case of Abu Ghosh and Beit Naqquba, Al Fureidis and Jisr Zarka in 1948 -or Why Four Villages Remained)]
Benny Morris writes: "It is possible that the inhabitants of Beit Naqquba had received "both" an order to evacuate from Arab military commanders in Ein Karim and "strong advice" to the same effect from Lisser and Navon. But it is likely that the "advice" given in the name of the Harel Brigade, which physically controlled the area, was more potent of the two factors in precipitating the evacuation." [Benny Morris (1994): "1948 and after; Israel and the Palestinians|1948 and After." ISBN 0-19-827929-9. (Chapter 8, p. 257-289: The Case of Abu Ghosh and Beit Naqquba, Al Fureidis and Jisr Zarka in 1948 -or Why Four Villages Remained) ]

Between 1948 and 1964 the inhabitants of Bayt Naqquba lived at Sataf, "under trees, because the Arabs had not allowed them to come over their lines, out of distrust and revenge" (Morris, p. 264). Afterwards they were allowed to stay temporarily in Abu Ghosh. In 1962, they established a new village on some of their land south of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway.

References

Bibliography

*Walid Khalidi (1992): "All that Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948." ISBN 0-88728-224-5.

ee also

*List of villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
*Jerusalem District
*Arab localities in Israel
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