Ghabbatiyya

Ghabbatiyya was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 30, 1948, under Operation Hiram. It was located 12 km northwest of Safad.
In 1945 it had a population of 60 Muslims.

History

In 1881 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found at Kh. Ghabbâti "foundations of walls and one olive press".

British mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ‘’Ghabbatia’’ had a population of 9 Muslims.
In the 1945 statistics the population was 60 Muslims, with a total of 3,453 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 15 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 412 for cereals; while a total of 2,509 dunams was non-cultivable area.

1948, aftermath

Israeli forces occupied Ghabbatiyya on 30 October 1948. In 1992 the village site was described: "The site is deserted and covered with grass, a few fig trees, stones, and the ruins of stone houses. The walls of one destroyed house still stand. The surrounding land is used by Israelis for grazing and forestry, and woods cover nearby Mount ‘Adathir."