In the
1945 statistics the population was counted with the neighbouring
Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa and
al-Naghnaghiyya, and together they had a population of 1,130 Muslims,[1] with a total of 12,139
dunams 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]
1948 and aftermath
On 8 and 9 April 1948, the
Haganah raided
al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa, al-Ghubayya-al-Tahta and Khirbet Beit Ras, and proceeded to blow them up in the following days.[10]
References
^
abGovernment of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p.
13
^
abGovernment of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
47Archived 2016-03-03 at the
Wayback Machine
^Morris, 2004, p.
xviii, village #151. Also gives cause of depopulation.
^Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
90
^Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
139Archived 2015-09-24 at the
Wayback Machine
^Morris, 2004, p.
242; note #598; Morris, 2004, p.
296