Wadi Qabbani


Wadi Qabbani, also known as Khirbat ash Sheik Husein was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was probably depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 1, 1948 as part of Operation Coastal Clearing. It was located 12 km northwest of Tulkarm. The name, Qabbani came from the Lebanese family who owned most of the land.

History

British Mandate era

In the 1945 statistics the village had a total population of 210 Muslims with a total of 9,812 dunams of land.
The land ownership of the village before occupation in dunams:
OwnerDunams
Arab427
Jewish9,276
Public109
Total9,812

Of this, Arabs used 408 dunums for cereals, while a total of 1,301 dunams were classified as non-cultivable land.
Types of land use in dunams in the village in 1945:
Land UsageArabJewishPublic
Citrus and bananas-46-
Irrigated and plantation---
Cereal4088,057-
Urban---
Cultivable4088,103-
Non-cultivable191,173109