Haifa district · depopulated 1948 · 2 min read
Naghnaghiya
النغنغية
Al-Naghnaghiyya was the smallest of the three villages known together as al-Ghubayyat, on the eastern slopes of the bilad al-rawha' beside the Haifa–Jenin highway, overlooking Marj ibn Amir. It was destroyed in the days after the battle for Mishmar ha-Emeq: the New York Times reported it occupied on 9 April 1948, Benny Morris dates the occupation to the night of 12–13 April. Whether its people fled during the attack or were expelled on occupation is not established. The site is now crossed by a highway and partly occupied by a soccer field.
See Naghnaghiya on the Atlas32.6034°N · 35.1575°EAl-Naghnaghiyya was the smallest of a group of three villages known collectively as al-Ghubayyat, on the eastern slopes of the bilad al-rawha’, twenty-eight and a half kilometres from Haifa at about a hundred metres. The other two were al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa and al-Ghubayya al-Tahta. It lay on the northern edge of a hill at the edge of a wadi bed, overlooking the plain of Marj ibn Amir and the Nazareth hills to the north and northeast, and it was adjacent to the Haifa–Jenin highway.
Its people were Muslims. The houses were scattered over the slopes and built of stone and mud, of stone and cement, or of concrete. The three villages shared an elementary school built around 1888, under Ottoman rule, which was closed during the Mandate. They had a number of water sources — wadis, springs, and the Muqatta’ River — and lived by agriculture and animal husbandry, grain being the chief crop, with a small area of fruit trees north of al-Naghnaghiyya. The 1944/45 figures are amalgamated for all three villages: 1,130 people, 12,139 dunums, of which 10,883 were allotted to cereals and 209 were irrigated or planted in orchards. The 1931 census counted 416 people in 78 houses. Beside the village lay an artificial mound of the same name, and two kilometres to the southeast, on the road to Jenin, Tall al-Mutasallim, identified with Megiddo.
The village was destroyed in the fighting around Mishmar ha-Emeq. A New York Times dispatch of 9 April 1948 reported it occupied when units of the Haganah broke a two-day truce in that battle; Benny Morris states that al-Naghnaghiyya was not occupied until the night of 12–13 April. Zochrot dates the occupation to 13 April. Like every village taken in that operation it was completely destroyed over the following days. What became of the residents is not established: they either fled during the attack or were expelled on occupation, as happened at neighbouring villages.
No Israeli settlement stands on the village land. Mishmar ha-Emeq, built in 1926, and Midrakh Oz, built in 1952, are the closest. The remains of the houses are scattered on the slope of one hill. The site is crossed by the Haifa–Megiddo highway and partly occupied by an Israeli soccer field, and is difficult to identify.
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2- palquest.org — al naghnaghiyya(opens in a new tab)https://www.palquest.org/en/place/16864/al-naghnaghiyya
- zochrot.org — en(opens in a new tab)https://www.zochrot.org/villages/village_details/49309/en
Connected in the archive
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named in this record — 4 records
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- Haifaحيفا
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Al-Naghnaghiyya was the smallest of a group of three villages known collectively as al-Ghubayyat, on the eastern slopes of the bilad al-rawha', twenty-eight and a half kilometres from Haifa at about a hundred metres.
- Jeninجنين
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Beside the village lay an artificial mound of the same name, and two kilometres to the southeast, on the road to Jenin, Tall al-Mutasallim, identified with Megiddo.
- Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqaالغبية الفوقاmapped, not yet written up
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: The other two were al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa and al-Ghubayya al-Tahta.
- Al-Ghubayya al-Tahtaالغبية التحتاmapped, not yet written up
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: The other two were al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa and al-Ghubayya al-Tahta.
in the same district — 17 records
Filed near each other — the same Mandate district, or the same uncommon subject tags.
- Abu Shushaأبو شوشة
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Both recorded in the Haifa district.
- Abu Zurayqأبو زريق
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Both recorded in the Haifa district.
- Al-Kafraynالكفرين
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Both recorded in the Haifa district.
- Al-Sindiyanaالسنديانة
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Both recorded in the Haifa district.
- Al-Tiraالطيرة
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Both recorded in the Haifa district.
- Ayn Ghazalعين غزال
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Both recorded in the Haifa district.
- and 11 more
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- Chicago
“Naghnaghiya.” Village Memory, FALASTEEN.AI. Accessed 22 August 2026. https://falasteen.ai/memory/naghnaghiya.- MLA
“Naghnaghiya.” Village Memory, FALASTEEN.AI, 2026, https://falasteen.ai/memory/naghnaghiya. Accessed 22 August 2026.- BibTeX
@misc{falasteen-naghnaghiya, title = {Naghnaghiya}, howpublished = {\url{https://falasteen.ai/memory/naghnaghiya}}, organization = {FALASTEEN.AI — A Living Archive for Palestine}, year = {2026}, note = {Accessed 2026-08-22} }