Jarash, Jerusalem
| Jarash | |
|---|---|
  Jarash | |
| Arabic | جرش |
| Name meaning | Jerash; personal name[1] |
| Subdistrict | 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 |
| Palestine grid | 151/126 |
| Population | 220 (1948[2]) |
| Area | 3,518[3] dunams |
| Date of depopulation | 21,October, 1948[4] |
| 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.
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]
There are no Israeli settlements on the site of the former town, though it is located within present-day Israel.
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
See also
- List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
- List of villages depopulated during the Arab-Israeli conflict
References
- ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 296
- ↑ Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
- ↑ Hadawi, 1970, p.57
- ↑ Morris, 2006, p. xviii, village #341. Also gives the cause for depopulation
- ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 154. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 297
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, III:25. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p.296
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. (Population; p.76, cultivated land; p.126 other land; p. 176)
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (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. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
- 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.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-00967-7.
- 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 Jarash
- SWP map XVII, IAA
- SWP map 17, Wikimedia commons
- Jarash from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
