Kawkaba
Sign in to saveKawkaba (), known to the Crusaders as Coquebel, was a Palestinian Arab village that was occupied by Israel during Operation Yoav during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and depopulated.
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- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Located in
- Gaza Subdistrict
- Population
- 680
- Area
- 8542
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- Kawkaba
- structure replaced by
- Kokhav Michael
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9 sectionsContents
- Location
- History
- Ottoman era
- British Mandate era
- 1948 and after
- People from Kawkaba
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Kawkaba (), known to the Crusaders as Coquebel, was a Palestinian Arab village that was occupied by Israel during Operation Yoav during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and depopulated.
==Location== The village was on an uneven stretch of red-brown soil on the southern coastal plain. It lay on the highway constructed by the British during World War II, which paralleled the coastal highway.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kawkaba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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