Occupation Date: 13 of May 1948. The village was completely destroyed with the exception of two houses remain standing. Barqa inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed. The population in 1931 was: 594 Arabs and 6 Jews, in 1945 there were 890 inhabitants. The Greeks referred to Barqa by Barka, and the Romans called it Bareca. It had no schools, however, its students attended school in the nearby village of the al-Batani al-Gharbi.

Barqa had three shrines: the 1st for al-Shaykh Muhammad, the 2nd for al-Shaykh Zarruq, and the 3rd for al-Nabi Barq. Barqa contained Greek relics, an old well, stone carvings, and fragments of pottery. No settlements on village lands. According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:

“Two houses remain standing on the site. One serves as a warehouse; it is made of concrete and has a covered portico on two sides. The other, a stone house with rectangular doors and windows and a flat roof, stands deserted in the midst of wild vegetation.”

Bibliography:

All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 by Walid Khalidi.