Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta
Introduction '''Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta''' was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict, located 28 km southeast of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 8, 1948, under the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek. The village was partly inhabited by Turkmens.
History leftAl-Ghubayya al-Tahta shared an elementary school founded by the Ottomans in 1888 with the villages of al-Ghubayya-al-Fawqa and al-Naghnaghiyya. The school was closed during the British Mandate rule.===British Mandate era===In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ''Ghabba al-Tahta'' had a population of 79 Muslims.In the 1931 census, the two al-Ghubayya village were counted together, the total population was 200 Muslims, in 38 houses.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, with a total of 12,139 dunams of land  according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 209 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 10,883 for cereals, while a total of 1,047 dunams were non-cultivable land.===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.
References
Bibliography ** ** ***al-Qawuqji, F. (1972):  Memoirs  of al-Qawuqji, Fauzi in ''Journal of Palestine Studies''** "Memoirs, 1948, Part I" in 1, no. 4 (Sum. 72): 27-58., dpf-file, downloadable** "Memoirs, 1948, Part II" in 2, no. 1 (Aut. 72): 3-33., dpf-file, downloadable
External links * Welcome To al-Ghubayya al-Tahta*   al-Ghubayya al-Tahta,  Zochrot *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8:   IAA,  Wikimedia commons * al-Ghubayya al-Tahta from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center* Al-Ghubayya Al-Tahta from Dr. Moslih Kanaaneh*, by Umar Ighbariyye, 20.3.2010, Zochrot