- Amqa
Infobox Former Arab villages in Palestine
name=Amqa
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arname=عمقا
meaning=
altSp='Amqa
district=ac
population=1,240
popyear=1945
area=6,060
areakm=6.1
date=10–11 July 1948 [Benny Morris (2004): "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited", p. XVII. Also gives cause(s) of depopulation.]
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curlocl=Amka Amqa is a former
Palestinian Arab village located 11 km north of the city of Acre in theGalilee . Its population was 1,240 in 1945 and its total land area was over 6,000 dunums. One elementary school for boys which was founded by the Ottomans in 1887, which remains standing to this date, and it has one mosque which remains standing.1948 War
The village was captured by
Israel 's 7th Brigade on July 16 1948 duringOperation Dekel , an Israeli offensive in the1948 Arab-Israeli War and was mostly destroyed with the exception of the its school and its mosque, and was mostly ethnical cleansed with the exception of its Druze inhabitants who still live nearby. In 1949 the village was settled byYemenite Jew s and was renamedAmka .Archeological sites
Three khirbats lay within 'Amqa's vicinity that contains the foundations of buildings, well-chiseled building stones, presses, and a cistern.
References
External links and references
* [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Amqa/index.html 'Amqa Town Statistics and Facts]
* [http://www.nakbainhebrew.org/index.php?id=426 Tour of Amqa] , by Liat Sadeh-Saadon and Raneen Geries, May 19, 2006, Zochrot
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