Naghnaghiya

Naghnaghiya
Naghnaghiya
Arabic	النغْنغية
Also Spelled	Al-Naghnaghiyya
District	Haifa
Coordinates	32°36′12.2″N 35°09′26.9″E / 32.603389°N 35.157472°E / 32.603389; 35.157472Coordinates: 32°36′12.2″N 35°09′26.9″E / 32.603389°N 35.157472°E / 32.603389; 35.157472
Population	416 (1931)
Area	12,139 dunums
Date of depopulation	12-13 April 1948[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces

Naghnaghiya (Arabic: النغْنغية‎, Al-Naghnaghiyya) was a Palestinian Arab village, 28.5 kilometers (17.7 mi) southeast of Haifa.^[2] It was depopulated before the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.^[3]

Location

The village was on the north edge of a hill at the edge of a wadi bed, overlooking the Jezreel Valley and the Nazareth hills to the north and northeast. It was the smallest of a group of three villages (known collectively as al-Ghubayyat) located together; the others were Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa and Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta. Next to al- Naghnaghiya was an artificial mound that bore the same name. Two kilometers to the southeast, on the highway to Jenin was Tall al-Mutasallim, identified with Megiddo^[2]

History

In 1888, during Ottoman rule, an elementary school was built that was shared by the three al-Ghubayyat villages.^[2]

1948, and after

Before the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, on the night of the 12-13 April 1948, Naghnaghiya and the neighbouring village of al-Mansi were attacked by the Palmach, a Jewish militia. By 15 April, Arabs had evacuated both villages, which were then blown up by the Jewish militia forces.^[3]

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, describing the village in 1992: "The remains of houses are scattered on the slope of one hill. The site, traversed by the Haifa-Megiddo highway and partly occupied by an Israeli soccer field, is difficult to identify."^[4]

See also

• Battle of Mishmar HaEmek
• List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

References

1. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii village #149. Also gives cause of depopulation
2. ^ ^{a b c} Khalidi, 1992, p. 179
3. ^ ^{a b} Morris, 2004, p. 242.
4. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 180

Bibliography

• Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html 
• Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0-88728-224-5 
• Morris, Benny (2004), The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521009677, 9780521009676 

External links

• Welcome to al-Naghnaghiyya
• Al-Naghnaghiyya photos from Dr. Moslih Kanaaneh
• al-Naghnaghiyya from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center