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Qaddita (, transliteration: ''Qaddîtâ'') was a
Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...
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village of 240, located northwest of
Safad Safed (), also known as Tzfat (), is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elevation of up to , Safed is the highest city in the Galilee and in Israel. Safed has been identified with (), a fortified town in the Upper Gal ...
. It was captured and depopulated in the
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, with some of its inhabitants expelled or fleeing to nearby 'Akbara where they live as internally displaced Palestinians and others to refugee camps in
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or
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.


History

It is possible that the name "Qaddita" is an
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distortion of the
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word ''
kaddish The Kaddish (, 'holy' or 'sanctification'), also transliterated as Qaddish, is a hymn praising God that is recited during Jewish prayer services. The central theme of the Kaddish is the magnification and sanctification of God's name. In the lit ...
''.Khalidi, 1992, p.485.


Ottoman era

Qaddita was under the
Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...
in 1517, and by 1596 it was administrated by the ''
nahiya A nāḥiyah ( , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiyeh, nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level divisi ...
'' ("subdistrict") of Jira, part of Sanjak Safad. The population was 27 households, an estimated 149 inhabitants, all
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s. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on wheat, barley, vineyards, beehives, and goats; a total of 4,030
akçe The ''akçe'' or ''akça'' (anglicized as ''akche'', ''akcheh'' or ''aqcha''; ; , , in Europe known as '' asper'') was a silver coin mainly known for being the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire. It was also used in other states includi ...
.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p.175, cited in Khalidi, 1992, p.485. The village appeared under the name of ''Kadis'' on the map that
Pierre Jacotin Pierre Jacotin (1765–1827) was the director of the Surveying, survey for the ''Carte de l'Égypte (Description de l'Égypte)'', the first triangulation-based map of Egypt, Syria and Palestine. The maps were drafted in 1799–1800 during Napole ...
compiled during Napoleon's invasion of 1799. The village was reported to be totally destroyed in the devastating Galilee earthquake of 1837. In 1838,
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noted: "''Kadita'' has many vineyards and fig trees in its neighbourhood, and was greatly injured by the earthquake". He also noted it as a village located in the Safad district. In 1875,
Victor Guérin Victor Guérin (; 15 September 1821 – 21 September 1890) was a French people, French intellectual, explorer and amateur archaeologist. He published books describing the geography, archeology and history of the areas he explored, which included ...
found "only ten houses, inhabited by as many Moslem families.
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s cut in the rock prove that it is the site of an ancient place." In 1881, the PEF's '' Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described ''Kadditha'': "a mud and stone village, containing about 200 Muslems, situated on the slope of a hill, with gardens of figs. There is a ''birket'' and spring." A population list from about 1887 showed ''Kadditha'' to have about 315 inhabitants; all Muslims.


British Mandate era

Under the rule of the British Mandate in Palestine, Qaddita expanded north and south, its houses were clustered together, and built of stone. In the
1922 census of Palestine The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922. The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divis ...
, Qaddita had a population of 110; all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p
41
/ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 170, still all Muslims, in a total of 32 houses.Mills, 1932, p
109
/ref> Its economy was based on animal husbandry and crop cultivation, mainly grains, figs, pomegranates, and grapes as well as olives which by 1943 covered 77
dunam A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; ; ; ), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area analogous in role (but not equal) to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amo ...
s. In the 1945 statistics the population was 240 Muslims, and the total land area was 2,441 dunums;Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p
71
/ref> Of this, 150 dunums was plantations and irrigable land, 1,452
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s, while 31 dunams were built-up (urban) land.


1948, and after

Like many other
Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...
villages in the eastern
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, Qaddita was evacuated a day after
Safad Safed (), also known as Tzfat (), is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elevation of up to , Safed is the highest city in the Galilee and in Israel. Safed has been identified with (), a fortified town in the Upper Gal ...
fell to the
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is during Operation Yiftach on May 10. Some villagers were evicted to the village of
Akbara Akbara () is an Arab village in the Israel, Israeli municipality of Safed, which included in 2010 more than 200 families. It is 2.5 km south of Safed City. The village was rebuilt in 1977, close to the old village destroyed in 1948 during ...
, south of Safad, where they, according to
Walid Khalidi Walid Khalidi (; born in Jerusalem on July 16, 1925) is a Palestinian historian who has written extensively on the Palestinian exodus. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies, established in Beirut in December 1963 as an inde ...
, lived under harrowing circumstances. No
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ish towns were built on village lands. Khalidi describes the remains of the village being "tombs from the cemetery and stone rubble from the destroyed homes".Khalidi, 1992, p.486.


See also

*
Kadita Kadita () is an unrecognised community settlement in northern Israel. Located in the Upper Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merom HaGalil Regional Council. In it had a population of . History In 1988 four families received land from ...
* Hamaam


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Zochrot *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4
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Dr. Khalil Rizk {{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War Arab villages depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War District of Safad