Welcome To al-Jammasin al-Sharqi - الجماسين الشرقي (ג'מאסין א-שרקי)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

March 17, 1948

Distance From District

9 (km) Northeast of Jaffa

Elevation

25 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #12 on the map

View from satellite

Exodus Cause

Fear of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting

Village Temains

al-Jammasin al-Sharqi was mostly destroyed with the exception of few houses, which are currently occupied by Israeli 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-Sharqi 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	286
Jewish	54
Public	22
**Total	358

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves	53	52
Irrigated & Plantation	193	2
Planted W/ Cereal	40	0
Arable	286	54
Non-Arable	18	0

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1931	395
1945	730
1948	847
Est. Refugees 1998	5,200

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	29
1948	62

Near By Towns

al-Shaykh Muwannis ↖	Zionist Colonies ↑ (N)	al-Sawalima ↗
Jarisha ←	al-Jammasin al-Sharqi	→ Fajja
↙ Zionist Colonies	↓ Zionist Colonies	↘ Zionist Colonies

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-Sharqi students used to attend school in the nearby village of al-Shaykh Muwannis.

Inhabitants Place of Origin

al-Jammasin 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

No settlements on village lands

Village Before Nakba

The village was situated about 5 km from the seashore on the central coastal plain and was bordered by marshlands. AI-Jammasin, the first part of the village name, was Arabic for 'buffalo breeders'; the second part, al-Sharqi, meant 'eastern' and distinguished it from the twin village of al-Jammasin al-Gharbi, to the west. All of the inhabitants were Muslims. They were originally nomads who had migrated from the Jordan Valley and who may have arrived in the area near the village site during the sixteenth century. Ottoman tax records for 1596 list Jammasin/Mazra'at Khashana as a 'tribe' in the nahiya of Bani Sa'b (liwa' of Nablus); its members paid taxes on goats and beehives. Judging from the absence of taxes on crops, it appears that the people of this mazra'a ('farm') may have specialized in short-distance herding and semi-nomadic tasks. By the eighteenth century, however, the people of Jammasin had settled in the area. Their typical form of housing, called a khus, was a conical or pyramidical hut made of logs and branches. Some houses, however, were built of adobe brick. The children attended school in the village of al-Shaykh Muwannis. The villagers earned their living primarily by raising buffalos, marketing the meat and milk in Jaffa, and using the beasts as draft animals. In addition to animal husbandry, they cultivated citrus, grain, and other crops. In 1944/45 a total of 53 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas, and 40 dunums were allocated to cereals; 193 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-Sharqi probably fell to Zionist attacks some time 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. However, development from nearby Tel Aviv has taken over the site.

Village Today

Except for some rubble-strewn areas [where castor-oil (ricinus) plants and cypress, fig, and Christ's-thorn trees grow], the site has been almost entirely engulfed by the expansion of Tel Aviv. Several Arab houses still stand and have been incorporated into the grid of Tel Aviv's streets, along with the newer Jewish commercial and residential buildings.

Source

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

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