Qaytiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 19, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 28 km northeast of Safad, bordering both the Hasibani and the Dan Rivers. History In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described El Keitîyeh, while under Ottoman rule, as a village of 80 Muslims built of adobe and surrounded by streams: occupied during spring and harvest.Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 88 bordering both the Hasibani and the Dan Rivers. British Mandate era In the 1931 census of Palestine, under of the British Mandate in Palestine, Qeitiya had a population of 824 Muslims, in a total of 163 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 109
In the 1945 statistics, Qeitiya had a population of 940 Muslims, and the total land area was 5,390 dunums. Of this, 19 dunums were for citrus and bananas, 4,465 for plantations and irrigable land, 44 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 120 while 93 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 170 1992, aftermath In 1992 the village site was described: "Only a few stones from the old village are still visible. The surrounding land is cultivated, except for a small section that contains stone rubble and is overgrown with thorny plants and eucalyptus trees." References
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(Morris, 2004, pp. 251, 511 - 512, 539)
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