page_title: Kawkaba
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Kawkaba / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Beit Tima 1931 1:20,000
context_page_description: Kawkaba, known to the Crusaders as Coquebel, was a Palestinian Arab village that was captured by Israel during Operation Yoav during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and depopulated.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the  British Mandate  authorities,  Kukaba had a population of 439,  all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census  to 522, still all Muslims, in  121 houses.
  Kawkaba shared an elementary school with the villages of Bayt Tima and Hulayqat. Its houses were made of adobe and cement, and its shops were located at the village center, on the western side of the road. On its eastern site were two water sources: a spring and a 70-meter deep well. The villagers  engaged in rainfed agriculture, cultivating grain and winter and summer vegetables. Towards the end of the British Mandate period they also cultivated fruits, such as figs and grapes, on all their land expect to the west.
  In  the 1945 statistics   the population of  Kaukaba  was 680 Muslims, while  the total land area was 8,542 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, a total of  166 dunams  were used  for plantations and irrigable land,  8,166  for cereals, while 40 dunams were built-up areas.
caption: Kawkaba  1931 1:20,000
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