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Welcome To Julis - جولس (ג'וליס)

District of Gaza
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Picture for Julis Village - Palestine: : A well house, further north towards Hasa
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Occupation Date June 11, 1948
Distance From District 26.5 (km) North East of Gaza
Elevation 50 (meters)
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Map Location See location #18 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Barak (lightening)
Attacking Units Giv'ati Brigade's Third Battalion
Defenders Egyptian Army
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village was mostly destroyed with the exception of few houses remain.
Ethnically Cleansing Julis inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 13,225
Jewish 0
Public 359
**Total 13,584
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 1,360
Irrigated & Plantation 931
Planted W/ Cereal 10,803
Built up 30
Arable 13,094
Non-Arable 460
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 204
1922 481
1931 682
1945 1,030
1948 1,195
Est. Refugees 1998 7,337
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 165
1948 289
Near By Townswhat's new
Mediterranean
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Isdud
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Bayt Daras
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Julis
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al-Majdal Asqalan
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Kawkaba
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'Iraq Suwaydan
Schools Julis had an elementary school for boys which was founded in 1937, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of 86 students.
Places of Warship One mosque
Shrines / Maqams Julis had a shrine for al-Shaykh Khayr who was killed while fighting the Crusades.
Archeological Sites Julis contained three archaeological sites: the 1st was Rasm al-Farsh, the 2nd was Shaykh Khayr, and the 3rd was Khirbat al-Biyar.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Hodiyya
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a slight elevation on the southern coastal plain, along the bank of a wadi. It was built on an archaeological site whose ancient name is still unknown. In 1596, Julis was a village in the nahiya of Gaza (liwa' of Gaza), with a population of 204. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and fruit, as well as on other types of produce and property, such as goats, beehives, and vineyards. In the late nineteenth century, the village of Julis had adobe brick structures, a well to the south, and a pool with gardens to the northeast.

During World War II, the British built a highway that passed through Julis, parallel to (and feeding traffic to) the coastal highway; this gave the village special importance as a transportation center. This road also intersected at Julis with the highway leading from al-Majdal to the Jerusalem–Jaffa highway. The British established a military camp at Julis in order to control this junction. The village was laid out in a square, sandwiched between the two highways and bounded at one end by the traffic circle where they intersected. Its adobe and cement houses were built close together. Julis had a mosque—its population was Muslim—and a shrine for Shaykh Khayr, a figure in local historical tradition who the residents believed was killed fighting the Crusaders. The village shops were scattered along the highways. A school, opened in 1937, had an enrollment of eighty-six students in the mid-1940s.

Underground water was abundant in Julis and was used for domestic needs. The inhabitants grew grain, vegetables, and fruit; their fruit orchards were concentrated on the east and north sides. Agriculture was both irrigated and rainfed. In 1944/45 a total of 1,360 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 10,803 dunums were allocated to cereals; 931 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. The antiquity of the village is demonstrated by the presence of an inscribed lintel, an ancient olive press, and cisterns lined with uncut stone. Three other archaeological sites, Rasm al-Farsh, Shaykh Khayr, and Khirbat al-Biyar, are nearby.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

On the night of 27–28 May 1948, the Giv'ati Brigade's First Battalion occupied a military barracks in this village during Operation Barak , but failed to gain complete control of Julis. The History of the War of Independence states that Egyptian forces attempted to recapture it almost immediately: 'The defenders of the place [Giv'ati forces] blocked enemy units which tried ... to infiltrate the barracks from the direction of the village of Julis.' The Haganah account says that the village itself fell some two weeks later, on 10–11 June, as the Giv'ati Brigade's Third Battalion mounted a number of operations to occupy individual villages just before the first truce of the war took effect. However, in his memoirs, the late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser recalled that these maneuvers occurred just after the truce took effect.

At the end of the truce in early July, Julis was one of the main positions that the Egyptians attempted (and failed) to recapture. The Egyptian army's Sixth Battalion, the unit of which Gamal Abdel Nasser was staff officer, was ordered to recapture the position. In later years, Abdel Nasser was highly critical of the planning of this operation. As he wrote in his memoirs of the war, 'Once again we were facing a battle for which we had made no preparation. We had no information about the enemy at Julis.' In the few hours before his unit was to move towards Julis, Abdel Nasser organized a quick reconnaissance of the position. During the course of the battle, his commanding officer (CO) ordered him to participate in the thick of the battle, leaving the unit without direction or coordination. Later, after getting hold of some aerial photographs, he managed to convince his CO and general headquarters that 'even if we had succeeded in entering Julis, we would have been at the mercy of the enemy, who would have turned Julis town into a cemetery for our forces.' Abdel Nasser argued that the village was indefensible, being dominated by the barracks which overlooked it. The attack was belatedly called off after considerable loss of life. From the Israeli perspective, on 10 July, Giv'ati units repulsed an Egyptian attack in which 'none of the defenders were injured in the well-fortified position of Julis.' A close colleague of Abdel Nasser's, Isma'il Muhy al-Din, was killed in the course of the battle.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Hodiyya was established on village lands in 1949, southwest of the site.

Village Today

Only a few houses remain. Most of them are made of cement, and have simple architectural features: flat roofs and rectangular doors and windows. One has two storeys and another has an illiyya (a single master bedroom or guest room on the top floor, usually available in the houses of wealthier villagers as a symbol of wealth and prestige. ) One house, in the southwestern section of the site, is occupied by Jewish residents. Some cactuses and sycamore and palm trees grow on the site, and a portion of it is planted with citrus trees. The military camp built by the British is now used by the Israeli army. The surrounding lands are cultivated by Israeli farmers.

Source

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