Al-Jalama, Haifa
This article is about the former Palestinian village in Haifa Sub-district. For the former Palestinian village in Tulkarm Sub-district, see Al-Jalama, Tulkarm.
Al-Jalama | |
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Arabic | الجلمة |
Name meaning | The hill[1] |
Subdistrict | Haifa |
Coordinates | 32°43′24.25″N 35°05′18.52″E / 32.7234028°N 35.0884778°ECoordinates: 32°43′24.25″N 35°05′18.52″E / 32.7234028°N 35.0884778°E |
Palestine grid | 158/236 |
Area | 7713[2] dunams |
Al-Jalama (Arabic: الجلمة) was a Palestinian village about 14 kilometres south-east of Haifa. It was depopulated in 1948.
History
The village was situated just above Khirbat Asafna. Excavations between 1964 and 1971 showed that the site had been occupied intermittently from the first to the fourth century A.D.[3]
In the British Mandate period in Palestine, the village was classified as a hamlet in the Palestine Index Gazetteer.[2]
The Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi described the village in 1992: "A military camp occupies the area, which is covered by eucalyptus trees."[2]
In 1948 al-Jalama was depopulated.
Israel currently operates a notorious children's prison at Al-Jalama.[4]
See also
- List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
References
Bibliography
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center., Population p.49
- 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.
- Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
External links
- Welcome to al-Jalama
- SWP map V, IAA
- SWP map 5, Wikimedia commons
- Jalame, tour, 10.4.04 from Zochrot