Editing Kawkaba (section)

===1948 and after===
The village that was captured by Israel during [[Operation Yoav]] during the [[1948 Arab-Israeli War]]. The fall of the village was preceded by the events at nearby [[Burayr]]; where the [[Haganah]] [[Oded Brigade]] apparently executed a large number of military age Palestinians. The Kawkaba villages had offered to surrender to the Yishuv's forces but the [[Haganah]] drove out the last of the inhabitants on the 27/28 May 1948.<ref> Morris, 2004, p.  [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA258 258]</ref> The village was on the front line between the Israeli and Egyptian armies through the summer of 1948 and appears to have changed hands several times.<ref>For example see [[Operation An-Far]], Khalidi, 1992, page 122.</ref>

Following the war the area was incorporated into the [[State of Israel]] and in 1950 the [[moshav]] of [[Kokhav Michael]] was founded on village land, southeast of the village site.<ref name=Khalidi122/>

According  to Khalidi, by 1992 the remaining structures on the village land were: 
<blockquote>"The site is overgrown with sycamore and Christ's -thorn trees. The old road, as well as crumbled walls and debris in a wooded part of the site are clearly visible. The land in the vicinity is cultivated by Israeli farmers."<ref name=Khalidi122/></blockquote>