Welcome To al-Jaladiyya - الجلدية (אל-ג'לדיה)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

July 8, 1948

Distance From District

34 (km) North East of Gaza

Elevation

75 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #16 on the map

View from satellite

Attacking Units

Giv'ati Brigade

Exodus Cause

Expulsion by Zionist troops

Village Temains

The village was completely defaced.

Ethnically Cleansing

al-Jaladiyya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	1
Jewish	0
Public	4,328
**Total	4,329

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Planted W/ Cereal	4,185
Built up	63
Arable	4,185
Non-Arable	81

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1596	88
1922	232
1931	228
1945	360
1948	418
Est. Refugees 1998	2,565

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	50
1948	91

Near By Towns

al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya ↖	Qastina ↑ (N)	Tall al-Turmus ↗
al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya ←	al-Jaladiyya	→ Bi'lin
↙ Bayt 'Affa	↓ Hatta	↘ Jusayr

Town's Name Through History

The Crusades built in the village a castle known by Geladia with which al-Jaladiyya was identified.

Schools

al-Jaladiyya had a school located in its Mosque, and when it opened its doors in 1945 it had an enrollment of 43 students.

Places of Warship

The village had one mosque constructed in 1890.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

No settlements on village lands

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a slightly elevated spot on the southern coastal plain, bordered on the southeast side by Wadi Suqrir. Secondary roads linked it to al-Faluja, in the south, to the highway leading to the town of al-Majdal, in the southwest, and to a number of the area's villages. The village may have been located on the site where the Crusaders had built the castle of Geladia. The scholars who participated in the late nineteenth century British survey and current Crusader scholars seem convinced that Geladia was built on the site of Khirbat Jaladiyya; they point to the fragments of architecture ('one block of a tower') as evidence of this. In 1596, al-Jaladiyya was a village in the nahiya of Gaza (liwa' of Gaza), with a population of eighty-eight. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and sesame, as well as on other types of produce and property, such as goats, beehives, and vineyards. It seems that the site may have been abandoned during the seventeenth century, however , and may not have been re-inhabited until the 1870s.

Al-Jaladiyya's inhabitants, all of whom were Muslim, built their houses of adobe and maintained a mosque in the village that was constructed in 1890 on the order of the Ottoman sultan Abd al-Hamid II (1876–1909). The mosque had two sections, one for prayer and another for teaching, and 43 students were enrolled in the mosque school by the mid-1940s. Rainfed agriculture was the basis of the economy. In 1944/45 a total of 4,185 dunums was allotted to cereals.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Between the two truces of the war (8–18 July 1948, a period also known as the 'Ten Days'), the Israeli army launched an offensive on the southern front to extend its area of control southwards towards the Negev. In the process, over sixteen villages were occupied in the area between the coast and the Hebron foothills, driving at least 20,000 people from their homes, according to figures cited by Israeli historian Benny Morris. Al-Jaladiyya was probably occupied in the first stage of the operation, on 9–10 July, by units of the Giv'ati Brigade. Its inhabitants either fled eastwards in the direction of Hebron, like most of the refugees from the area seized during the operation, or southwards to the Gaza Strip. Although Giv'ati sources later recalled that the people fled before the entry of the columns into their villages, the Brigade's operational orders had demanded that civilians be expelled. A New York Times article speculated that the occupation of this and a few other villages on the al-Majdal–al-Latrun road prevented Egyptian forces from attempting to break through to al-Latrun.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands. Shafir, established in 1949, is to the southeast of the site, and Zerachya, established in 1950, is to the southwest of the site. Both are on the land of al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya Morris states that these two settlements were considered for placement on the lands of al-Jaladiyya, according to a plan submitted by the Jewish National Fund on 20 August 1948.

Village Today

Only a few date-palm, carob, and fig trees remain on the site. The surrounding lands are cultivated by Israeli farmers.

Source

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

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