This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Kuwaykat (Arabic: كويكات), also spelled Kuweikat, Kweikat or Kuwaikat, was a Palestinian village located 9 km northeast of Acre.

[7][8] According to historian Denys Pringle, the khan might have been part of the headquarters of Genoese estate in the village built in the 13th century.

[10] In the late Ottoman period, Kuwaykat was named Chiouwe chiateh on the French map Pierre Jacotin made of the area during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and Syria in 1799.

[11] In 1875 Victor Guérin visited, and found the village surrounded with gardens planted with fig and olive trees, and with an ancient well.

In addition, the village had a mosque and a shrine for the Druze religious leader, Shaykh Aby Muhammad al-Qurayshi.

The first attack on the village of Kuwaykat during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War took place on 18–19 January 1948, and involved a force of over eighty Jewish militiamen, according to Filastin, the Palestinian newspaper at the time.

The wife of Qassim Ahmad Sa´id fled carrying a pillow in her arms instead of her child ...[6][22] Two people were killed and two wounded by the shelling.

[6] In January 1949, kibbutz ha-Bonim (later renamed Beit HaEmek) was established near the site of Kuwaykat, on village lands.