Editing Kawkaba (section)

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{{Infobox settlement
| name                    = Kawkaba
| native_name             = كوكبا
| native_name_lang        = ar
| other_name              = Kaukaba
| settlement_type         = 
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| etymology               = Star, or  mountain, or donjon<ref>Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/368/mode/1up 368]</ref>
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| pushpin_map             = Mandatory Palestine | pushpin_map_caption     = Location within [[Mandatory Palestine]] | image_map               = {{Historical map series|default=2|date1=1870s|date2=1940s|date3=modern|date4=1940s with modern overlay|width=225}} | map_caption             = A series of historical maps of the area around {{PAGENAME}} (click the buttons)
| pushpin_mapsize         = 200
| coordinates             = {{coord|31|37|51|N|34|39|46|E|type:city_region:PS|display=inline,title}}
| grid_name               = [[Palestine grid|Palestine&nbsp;grid]]
| grid_position           = 117/115
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| subdivision_type        = [[Geopolitical entity]]
| subdivision_name        = [[Mandatory Palestine]]
| subdivision_type1       = [[Districts of Mandatory Palestine|Subdistrict]]
| subdivision_name1       = [[Gaza Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine|Gaza]]
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| established_title1      = Date of depopulation
| established_date1       = 12 May 1948<ref>Morris, 2004, p.  [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR19 xix], village No. 304. Also gives cause for depopulation</ref>
| established_title2      = Repopulated dates
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| area_footnotes          =<ref name=Hadawi46/>
| unit_pref               = dunam
| area_total_dunam        = 8,542
<!-- population -->
| population_as_of        = 1945
| population_total        = 680<ref name=DoS1945p31>Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p31.jpg  31]</ref><ref name=Hadawi46>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in  Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Gaza/Page-046.jpg  46]</ref>
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| blank_name_sec1         = Cause(s) of depopulation
| blank_info_sec1         = Influence of nearby town's fall
| blank3_name_sec1        = Current Localities
| blank3_info_sec1        = [[Kokhav Michael]]<ref name=Khalidi122>Khalidi, 1992, p. 122</ref>
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'''Kawkaba''' ({{Langx|ar|كوكبا}}), known to the [[Crusades|Crusaders]] as '''Coquebel''', was a [[Palestinian people|Palestinian Arab]] village that was occupied by Israel during [[Operation Yoav]] during the [[1948 Arab-Israeli War]], and depopulated.