Al-Nuqayb was a

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village in the Tiberias Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the

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on May 15, 1948. It was located 10 km east across the lake from

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. bordering the Wadi al-Muzaffar and Wadi Samakh. al-Nuqayb was named after the

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tribe of 'Arab al-Nuqayb.

Location

The village was located on the eastern shore of

Lake Tiberias The Sea of Galilee (, Judeo-Aramaic: יַמּא דטבריא, גִּנֵּיסַר, ), also called Lake Tiberias, Genezareth Lake or Kinneret, is a freshwater lake in Israel. It is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth and the second-lowest lak ...

, with the fortress Qal'at al-Hisn located just to the east.

History

In the 1880s most of the village land was purchased by the Bahá'u'lláh, while the villagers continued to farm as

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British Mandate era

In the 1920s, the land the Bahá'u'lláh had purchased was sold to the

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. At the time of the

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conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Nuqhaib had a population of 103 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, p
39
/ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 287 Muslims, in 60 houses.Mills, 1932, p
84
/ref> The

Kibbutz A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania Alef, Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economi ...

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was established in 1937, 1,5 km south of the village site. In 1944/1945, the village had a population of 320 Muslims, with a total of 967 dunams of land. Of this, 131 dunams were irrigated or used for plantations, 797 were used for

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s, while 30 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) land.

1948, aftermath

After the

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, according to the armistice agreements of 1949 Between Israel and Syria, it was determined that a string of villages, including Nuqeib, Al-Hamma, Al-Samra in the Tiberias Subdistrict and

Kirad al-Baqqara Kirad al-Baqqara () was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 22, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 11 ...

and Kirad al-Ghannama further north in the Safad Subdistrict, would be included the

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(DMZ) between Israel and

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. The villagers and their property were formally protected by Article V of the Israeli-Syrian agreement of 20 July that year.Map
/ref> However, The people on the Kibbutz were subjected to continual attacks, making farming difficult and forcing the villagers to turn to fishing as their primary form of livelihood. In 1948, the Syrians attacked the kibbutz.

inhabitants, a total of 2,200 villagers, moved to Syria.Morris, 2004, p.
512
/ref> Most of the villagers eventually moved to Syria, while some relocated to Sha'ab. In 1992 the village site was described: "The site is fenced in and covered with thorny grass and various kinds of trees, such as Christ's-thorn trees. Piles of stones and the remains of walls can be seen. Part of the surrounding land is cultivated by the nearby settlement, and the remainder is used as a grazing area by Israelis."

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