Jubata ez-Zeit
| Jubata ez-Zeit جباتا الزيت | |
|---|---|
  Jubata ez-Zeit Jubata ez-Zeit in Syria | |
| Coordinates: 33°15′N 35°44′E / 33.250°N 35.733°ECoordinates: 33°15′N 35°44′E / 33.250°N 35.733°E | |
| Country |
 Syria |
| Governorate | Quneitra |
| District | Quneitra District |
| Region | Golan Heights |
| Destroyed | 1967 |
| Elevation | 979 m (3,215 ft) |
| Population (1967) | |
| • Total | 1,500-2,000 (individual estimate) |
Jubata ez-Zeit (Arabic: جباتا الزيت, Jubātā az-Zayt)[1] was a Syrian village situated in the far north of the Golan Heights. According to an Arab resident of a nearby town, it had a population of around 1,500 to 2,000 people prior to the Six-Day War.[2]
Etymology
Jubata ez-Zeit is an Arabic name that translates into English as "olive oil pit," and refers to the olive trees that grew in the village which remain present today.[3]
History
Towards the end of the Six Day War in June 1967, the area was declared a closed military zone. About half of the residents of Jubat ez-Zeit fled during the fighting. The remaining half were evicted by the Israeli Army after the war.[2] and the village was razed.[4] In the early 1970s, the Israeli settlement of Neve Ativ was built on the site of the former village.[5][6]
Geography
Jubata ez-Zeit was located in a wadi whose name was transcribed by Edward Robinson and Eli Smith as Wady Khǔshābeh during their travels in the region in the mid-19th-century. The wadi extends out to the southwest from the base of the southwestern peak of Jabal esh-Sheikh.[7]
Notable residents
See also
- Syrian towns and villages depopulated in the Arab-Israeli conflict
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Batatu 1999, p. 338
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Murphy & Gannon 2008, p. 149
- ↑ Dar 1993, p. 168
- ↑ Murphy & Gannon 2008, p. 163
- ↑ Humphries, Isabelle. In the Ghost Towns of the Occupied Golan, Five Villages Defiantly Wave the Syrian Flag Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August 2006
- ↑ Murphy & Gannon 2008, p. 151
- ↑ Robinson & Smith 1857, p. 405
Bibliography
- Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. (p. 641)
- Murphy, Ray; Gannon, Declan (2008). "Changing the Landscape: Israel’s Gross Violations of International Law in the Occupied Syrian Golan". Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (Cambridge University Press) 11: pp. 139–174.
- Batatu, Hanna (1999). Syria's peasantry, the descendants of its lesser rural notables, and their politics (Illustrated ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-00254-5.
- Robinson, Edward; Smith, Eli (1857). Later Biblical researches in Palestine, and in the adjacent regions: a journal of travels in the year 1852 (2nd ed.). Crocker and Brewster.
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