Kawkaba

Kawkaba

كوكبا
Kaukaba
Kawkaba كوكبا Kaukaba
	Etymology: Star, or mountain, or donjon
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Kawkaba (click the buttons)
	Kawkaba Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 31°37′51″N 34°39′46″E / 31.63083°N 34.66278°E
Palestine grid	117/115
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Gaza
Date of depopulation	12 May 1948
Area
• Total	8,542 dunams (8.542 km2 or 3.298 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	680
Cause(s) of depopulation	Influence of nearby town's fall
Current Localities	Kokhav Michael

Kawkaba (Arabic: كوكبا), known to the Crusaders as Coquebel, was a Palestinian Arab village that was occupied by Israel during Operation Yoav during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and depopulated.

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 368
^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 31
^ ^a ^b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 46
^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village No. 304. Also gives cause for depopulation
^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 122

Kawkaba كوكبا Kaukaba
Etymology: Star, or mountain, or donjon^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Kawkaba (click the buttons)
Kawkaba Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°37′51″N 34°39′46″E / 31.63083°N 34.66278°E / 31.63083; 34.66278
Palestine grid	117/115
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Gaza
Date of depopulation	12 May 1948^[4]
Area ^[3]
• Total	8,542 dunams (8.542 km² or 3.298 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	680^[2]^[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Influence of nearby town's fall
Current Localities	Kokhav Michael^[5]