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Welcome To al-Jammasin al-Gharbi - الجماسين الغربي (ג'מאסין אל-ע'רבי)

District of Jaffa
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date March 17, 1948
Distance From District 6.5 (km) Northeast of Jaffa
Elevation 25 (meters)
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Exodus Cause Fear of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting
Village Temains al-Jammasin al-Gharbi was mostly destroyed with the exception of few houses currently being occupied by Jewish settlers.
Ethnically Cleansing Either in December 1947 or January 1948 the leaders of al-Shaykh Muwannis, al-Mas'udiyya, al-Jammasin, and the mukhtars of 'Arab Abu Kishk and Ijlil met with Haganah representative in the house of Avraham Schapira in Petah Tikva and expressed desire for peace. Despite the commitment of these villages not harbor any Arab Liberation Armies or local Arab Militia, they were all completely ethnically cleansed. al-Jammasin al-Gharbi inhabitants were partially intimidated by the Haganah into fleeing their homes on January 7th 1948, and complete ethnic cleansing on March 17th, 1948.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 529
Jewish 714
Public 122
**Total 1,365
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 202 215
Irrigated & Plantation 151 143
Planted W/ Cereal 173 332
Arable 526 690
Non-Arable 125 24
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1931 566
1945 1,080
1948 1,253
Est. Refugees 1998 7,694
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
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al-Shaykh Muwannis
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Jarisha
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Tel Aviv
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Sarona
Town's Name Through History Jammasin in Arabic means Water Buffalo. The village may have been named after the water buffaloes that the villagers were famous in raising.
Schools al-Jammasin al-Gharbi students used to attend school in the nearby village of al-Shaykh Muwannis.
Inhabitants Place of Origin al-Jammasin's inhabitants were known to be descendants of nomads who had migrated to the area from the Jordan Valley.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 The Tel Aviv municipality
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated 2.5 km from the seashore on the central coastal plain and was bordered by marshlands. The first part of the village name, al-Jammasin, meant 'buffalo breeders' in Arabic; the second part, al-Gharbi ('western'), distinguished it from its twin village in the east, al-Jammasin al-Sharqi. In the Ottoman tax registers for 1596 Jammasin is mentioned as a 'tribe' in the nahiya of Bani Sa'b (liwa' of Nablus); its members paid taxes on water buffalo. It is not certain that the 'tribe' had actually built the two villages that later bore the same name at that early date, since the area in which they were located was not characterized as an area of permanent settlement in the tax records. They were known to be descendants of nomads who had migrated from the Jordan Valley. By the eighteenth century the people of Jammasin, all of whom were Muslims, had settled in the area. A typical village abode was a khus (a conical or pyramidical hut made of tree logs and branches ), although some houses were built of adobe brick.

In 1922, there were about 200 people living in the village, and by 1944, this figure had increased to over 1,000. The children attended school in the village of al-Shaykh Muwannis. The villagers earned their living primarily by raising buffalos, marketing their meat and milk in Jaffa, and using the beasts as draft animals. In addition to animal husbandry, they cultivated fruits, especially citrus. In 1944/45 a total of 202 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 173 dunums were allocated to cereals; 151 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Some people from the village also worked in the outlying citrus groves, particularly the German-owned groves in Saruna.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

AI-Jammasin al-Gharbi was probably taken by Zionist troops sometime before the end of the British Mandate on 15 May 1948. By this time, Zionist forces were in control of the whole coastal area between Haifa and Tel Aviv (see Abu Kishk and al-Mas'udiyya, Jaffa sub-district).

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no settlements on village lands, but development from Tel Aviv has taken over the site, which is now part of the Tel Aviv municipality.
The Village Today

Village Today

The site is overgrown with weeds and grasses, interspersed with cypress, Christ's-thorn, and fig trees and castor-oil (ricinus) plants. A few somewhat dilapidated houses remain, some inhabited by Jews, others deserted. One inhabited house is a two-storey structure that looks like a conglomeration of unrelated rooms of varying size and shape. It has rectangular doors and windows, and the roofs of the rooms on the upper floors are both slanted and gabled. The whitewash on the exterior walls is peeling off. The high-rise apartment complexes of Tel Aviv loom in the background.

Source

Dr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains.
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