Subdistrict Haifa Date of depopulation May 1948 | Palestine grid 152/226 | |
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Name meaning Kumbazah, possibly from Persian for dome or cupola | ||
Khirbat Qumbaza was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict, located 21.5 km south of Haifa, 3 km away from Wadi al-Milh. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War in May, 1948.
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History
One km to the southeast of the village site lay the maqam of Shaykh Quttayna, just below Khirbat Quttayna. Khirbat Quttayna has been identified by some scholars as the Canaanite place Kartah.
In the 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Khirbat Qumbaza as "a small hamlet on high ground".
1948, and aftermath
In July 1948, the IDF found hundreds of women, children and old people at Ijzim and nearby Khirbat Qumbaza. "More than 100" Arabs were reported killed, and about 100 militiamen were taken prisoners.
According to Walid Khalidi, writing in 1992, some of the village lands was used by the Israeli army as military training ground, while the settlement of Kerem Maharal was close to the old village site.