Middle East
Israel
Northern District

El Ghabisiya

Al-Ghabisiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in northern Palestine, 16 km north-east of in present-day . It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and remains deserted.
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  • Type: Ruins
  • Description: depopulated village in Palestine
  • Also known as: “Al Ghabisiya”, “Al-Ghabisiyya”, and “El Aabaissiye”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Tel Kabri and Galilee Medical Center.

Archaeological site
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, or Tell al-Qahweh, is an archaeological tell containing one of the largest Middle Bronze Age Canaanite palaces in , and the largest such palace excavated as of 2014. is situated 1¼ km northwest of El Ghabisiya.

Hospital
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, abbreviated GMC, is a located in the coastal city of and is the second largest hospital in northern Israel. It was established in 1956. is situated 3½ km west of El Ghabisiya.

Ruins
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Kuwaykat, also spelled , Kweikat or Kuwaikat, was a Palestinian village located 9 km northeast of . It was depopulated in 1948. is situated 4 km south of El Ghabisiya.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sheikh Danun and Netiv HaShayara.

Village
Photo: Almog, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sheikh Dannun; also transliterated as and Sheikh Danon) is an Arab village located in 's . Since 1948, it has been made up of two old villages – Shaykh Danun and Shaykh Dawud – which were merged, and are now jointly referred to as Sheikh Dannun.

Village
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is a moshav in northern . Located near , it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 488.

Village
is a kibbutz in northern . Located in the Western Galilee about 4 kilometres east of the Mediterranean seaside town of , it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council.

El Ghabisiya

Latitude
33.00092° or 33° 0′ 3″ north
Longitude
35.15068° or 35° 9′ 3″ east
Open location code
8G5Q2522+97
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278473350
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Wiki­data ID
Q4702414
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“El Ghabisiya” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الغابسية (فلسطين)”
  • Arabic: “الغابسية”
  • Dutch: “Al-Ghabisiyya”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الجابسيه”
  • French: “Al-Ghabisiyya”
  • Hebrew: “מסגד ע’בסיה”
  • Hebrew: “ע’אבסייה”
  • Polish: “Al-Ghabisijja”
  • Swedish: “Al-Ghabisiyya”
  • Urdu: “الغابسیہ”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “El Ghabisiya”. Photo: Wael.Othman, CC BY-SA 4.0.