Bayt Naqquba

Bayt Naqquba بيت نقّوبة Beit Nakuba
Etymology: The house of the mountain pass[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Bayt Naqquba (click the buttons)
Bayt Naqquba Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°48′11″N 35°07′33″E / 31.80306°N 35.12583°E / 31.80306; 35.12583
Palestine grid	161/134
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jerusalem
Date of depopulation	early April 1948[2]
Area
• Total	2,979 dunams (2.9 km2 or 1.1 sq mi)
Population  (1948[3])
• Total	278
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Beit Nekofa[4]

Bayt Naqquba (Arabic: بيت نقّوبة, Hebrew: בית נקובא, also spelled Bait Naqquba) was a Palestinian village in British Mandate Palestine, located 9.5 kilometers west of Jerusalem, near Abu Ghosh. Before Palmach and Haganah troops occupied the village during Operation Nachshon on April 11, 1948, approximately 300 Palestinian Arabs lived there.^[5] After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, a moshav named Beit Nekofa was founded close to the site by Jewish immigrants from Yugoslavia. In 1962, residents of Bayt Naqubba built a new village named Ein Naqquba, south of Beit Nekofa.^[5]