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Welcome To al-Jalama - الجلمة (אל-ג'למה)

District of Haifa
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 1, 1948
Distance From District 14 (km) South East of Haifa
Elevation 75 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #9 on the map

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Attacking Units Carmeli Brigade
Exodus Cause Expulsion by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed
Ethnically Cleansing al-Jalama inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab N/A
Jewish N/A
Public N/A
**Total 7,713
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
That Usurped Village Lands		 Currently, an Israeli military base occupies the village.
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated at the northern foot of Mount Carmel, about 2 km east of the Arab town of 'Isfiya. AI-Jalama was classified as a hamlet by the Mandate Palestine Index Gazetteer. The Haifa-Nazareth highway passed about 100 m to the north of it. Just below al-Jalama was Khirbat Asafna, where the village had been located in earlier times. It was excavated by the University of Missouri with the support of the Corning Glass Company from 1964 to 1971. These excavations revealed that the site had been occupied intermittently from the first to the fourth century A.D. The chief interest of the site for the investigators was the glass factory there, the production of glass at which reached its peak in the fourth century A.D.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Most villages in the vicinity of al-Jalama were captured immediately before or shortly after the fall of Haifa. In the instructions to the Haganah brigades contained in Plan Dalet, the Carmeli Brigade was assigned the task of controlling the road between Haifa and al-Jalama, according to the History of the Haganah. This probably occurred in the last week of April and early in May 1948, when Zionist forces occupied a cluster of villages in Haifa's hinterland, such as Balad al-Shaykh. The inhabitants may have been driven out at this time.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village land.

Village Today

A military camp occupies the area, which is covered by eucalyptus trees.

Source

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