Jarash, Jerusalem
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| Arabic | جرش |
| Sub-district | Jerusalem |
| Coordinates | 31°43′47.29″N 35°00′57.66″E / 31.7298028°N 35.0160167°ECoordinates: 31°43′47.29″N 35°00′57.66″E / 31.7298028°N 35.0160167°E |
| Population | 220 (1948[1]) |
| Area | 3,518[2] dunums |
| Date of depopulation | 21,October, 1948[3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Jarash (Arabic: جرش) was a Palestinian village that was depopulated over the course of 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Located 25 kilometers west of Jerusalem, Jarash was a wholly Arab village of 220 inhabitants in 1948.[4]
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[edit] History
To the east of the village lay Khirbat Sira, which is identified with a Mamluk/Ottoman village.[5]
In the late nineteenth century, Jarash was described as a village built on the spur of a hill with olive trees growing below it.[6]
The village was assaulted by Israeli forces of the Sixth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade on 21 October 1948 causing its inhabitants to flee.[4]
There are no Israeli settlements on the site of the former town, though it is located within present-day Israel.[4]
Walid Khalidi writes of Jarash:
"The site is overgrown with grass, interspersed with the debris of destroyed houses and stones from the terraces. The ruins of a cemetery lie northwest of the site. Groves of trees cover two hills to the west of the site that are separated by a valley. Carob, fig, almond, and olive trees grow on these hills.[4]
[edit] See also
- List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
- List of villages depopulated during the Arab-Israeli conflict
[edit] References
- ^ Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
- ^ Hadawi, 1970, p.57
- ^ Morris, 2006, p. xviii, village #341. Also gives the cause for depopulation
- ^ a b c d "Welcome to Jarash". Palestine Remembered. http://www.palestineremembered.com/Jerusalem/Jarash/. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
- ^ Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter and Kamal Abdulfattah (1977), Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. p. 154. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 297
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, III:25. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p.296
[edit] Bibliography
- Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener (1881): The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology. London:Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 3
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html (Population; p.76, cultivated land; p.126 other land; p. 176)
- Khalidi, Walid (1992). All that Remains. Washington DC: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-00967-7, 9780521009676
