The depopulated village of Ghuraba / District of Safed

District: Safed

Population 1948: 260

Occupation date: 01/05/1948

Jewish settlements on village/town land before 1948: None

Jewish settlements on village/town land after 1948: Gonen

Ghuraba (Arabic: غرابة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 28, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 22 km northeast of Safad.

Ghuraba Village Population

By the 1945 statistics the population was 220 Muslims, with a total of 2,933 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey, Arabs used 2,928 dunams for plantations and irrigable land.

Occupation and Depopulation

on 1 May, 1948, many villagers depopula.

Israeli settlements on village/town land

In 1951 Gonen was established on Ghurabah land.

Ghuraba Village Today

The stones of ruined houses are strewn across the fenced-in site. Segments of a few stone walls still stand. The site and the surrounding land are used for grazing by israeli ( occupied ).