Welcome To Jabbul - جبول (ג'בול)

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Statistic & Fact

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Occupation Date

May 18, 1948

Distance From District

7 (km) North of Baysan

Elevation

100 (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

Military Operation

Operation Gideon

Attacking Units

Golani Brigades

Exodus Cause

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

Village Temains

Jabbul was completely destroyed and only house rubble left behind.

Ethnically Cleansing

Jabbul inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	5,407
Jewish	20
Public	9,700
**Total	15,127

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	5	20
Planted W/ Cereal	4,367	0
Built up	33	0
Arable	4,372	20
Non-Arable	9,372	0

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1922	231
1931	218
1945	420 (170 Jewish)
1948	290 (170 Jewish)
Est. Refugees 1998	1,781

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	50
1948	66

Near By Towns

Kafra ↖	al-Taqa, Khirbat ↑ (N)
Yubla ←	Jabbul	→ Zab'a
↙ al-Murassas	↓ al-Hamidiyya

Town's Name Through History

Both Crusades and Romans referred to Jabbul by Gebul.

Schools

Jabbul didn't have a school, however, its students used to attend school in the nearby village of Kawkab al-Hawa.

Nearby Wadies & Rivers

The village borders Wadi Yubla from southwest and Wadi al-'Ashsha from the south.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

No Israeli settlements on village lands.

Village Before Nakba

Jabbul stood on a hill on the edge of the Baysan Valley, overlooking Wadi Yubla to the southwest. Wadi al-'Ashsha ran through its lands in the south. A secondary road linked it to the Baysan-Jericho highway, and other roads connected it to surrounding villages. The site was probably known in Roman times as Gebul or, more likely, as Gebula. The Crusaders also referred to it as Gebul, which may have been derived from the Hebrew word for 'boundary.' In 1596, Jabbul was a farm that paid taxes to the government. In the late nineteenth century, the village of Jabbul was situated on low ground and was built of stone and mud. The village had a circular plan, its houses radiating out from the village center. The houses were surrounded by farmlands. A network of narrow alleys spread from the center and merged with the roads linking the village to other localities. Jabbul, whose entire population was Muslim, had a small mosque with a domed shrine which stood south of the houses, and a number of shops. The villagers relied mainly on Baysan and the village of Kawkab al-Hawa for education, medical care, trade, and other services. A spring to the east of the village supplied them with water. They grew grain, vegetables, and fruits on their lands, which were rainfed. In 1944/45 a total of 4,367 dunums was allocated to cereals; 5 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. The elevated lands around the village were used for grazing.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land. The settlement of Beyt Yosef , built in 1937 on the lands of Zab'a, is about 2 km to the southeast. A farm called Doshen was established in 1955 on lands that belonged to the village of Zab'a; it is close to the village site.

Village Today

The houses have been reduced to rubble and are overgrown with trees, thorns, and wild grass. The lands around the site are cultivated.

Source

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

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