Al-Jaladiyya

Al-Jaladiyya

Al-Jaladiyya

Place in Gaza, Mandatory Palestine

Al-Jaladiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 8, 1948, by the Giv'ati Brigade. It was located 34 kilometres northeast of Gaza.

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The Crusades built a castle in the village.

Al-Jaladiyya was abandoned at some point after the 16th century. It was resettled in the 19th century by migrants from Egypt.[4]

There was a school located in the village mosque (built 1890), and when it opened its doors in 1945 it had an enrollment of 43 students.

al-Jaladiyya 1930 1:20,000
al-Jaladiya 1945 1:250,000

References

  1. [1]
    Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #289. Morris gives both cause and date for depopulation as "Not known"
  2. [2]
    Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 31
  3. [3]
    Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 45 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
  4. [4]
    Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 381

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