Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi

Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi
Arabic
Sub-district	Jaffa
Population	1080 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	March 17, 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Fear of being caught up in the fighting

Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jaffa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 17, 1948. It was located 6.5 km northeast of Jaffa. As of 1945 it had a population of 1,080. al-Jammasin's inhabitants were known to be descendants of nomads from the Jordan Valley.

Bibliography

• 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
• Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
• Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6. http://books.google.com/?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=benny+morris&q.