Jarash, Palestine

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Jarash (Arabic: جرش‎) was a Palestinian village that was depopulation 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.^[1] It was assaulted by Israeli forces of the Sixth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade on 21 October 1948 causing its inhabitants to flee.^[1]

There are no Israeli settlements on the site of the former town, though it is located within present-day Israel.^[1]

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.^[1]