Welcome To Mughallis - مغلس (מע'לס)

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Statistic & Fact

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Occupation Date

July 9, 1948

Distance From District

30.5 (km) Northwest of Hebron

Elevation

200 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #1 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Operation An-Far

Defenders

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhoods, local Palestinian militias and some Arab Liberation Army volunteers

Exodus Cause

Influence of fall of, or exoduce from, neighboring town

Village Temains

Mughallis was completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.

Ethnically Cleansing

Mughallis inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	11,286
Jewish	0
Public	173
**Total	11,459

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	88
Olive Groves	55
Planted W/ Cereal	7,277
Built up	23
Arable	7,365
Non-Arable	4,071

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1596	424
1922	311
1931	447
1945	540
1948	626
Est. Refugees 1998	3,847

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	93
1948	130

Near By Towns

Idnibba ↖	Qazaza ↑ (N)	Idnibba ↗
	Mughallis	→ al-Burayj
↙ Tall al-Safi	↓ Dayr al-Dubban	↘ 'Ajjur

Water Supply

Since it was believed that the water of Mughallis' well helped in dissolving kidney stones, people from the nearby villages flocked to the village's well to take advantage of this natural wander, our scientists stand behind this claim!.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Gefen

Village Before Nakba

The village stood atop a long hill, extending in an east-west direction and ringed by a shallow wadi. It overlooked an expanse of the coastal plain in the west and faced the broad range of the Jerusalem Mountains in the east. A secondary road that had once been the caravan route between Bayt Jibrin and Ramla passed next to the village and afforded it access to these two centers. In 1596, Mughallis was a village in the nahiya of Gaza (liwa' of Gaza), with a population of 424. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and fruits, as well as on other types of produce, such as goats and beehives. People from the surrounding villages came to Mughallis to obtain water from its well because they believed that this water helped dissolve kidney stones.

The villagers, who were Muslim, relied on rainfed agriculture for their livelihood, growing chiefly grain. They also cultivated vegetables and fruits. In 1944/45 a total of 7,277 dunums was allotted to cereals 88 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 55 dunums were planted with olive trees. In addition to the village itself, which was built over an archaeological site, there were two other sites -Khirbat Ghallus and Khirbat Samra- which contained archaeological artifacts.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

During the Ten Days that separated the two truces of the war (8-18 July 1948), Israeli forces launched Operation An-Far on the southern front. Mughallis was occupied on 9-10 July during the first stage of the operation, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Gefen, founded in 1955, is north of the village site, on village land.

Village Today

The site and surrounding area are fenced in. The debris from the houses have been levelled, and one can still see building components. Remnants of a house on the east side are ringed by stone markers that formerly identified the boundaries of a home garden. Numerous trees, including olive and carob trees, grow on all sides, and cactuses are found on the northern and southern edges.

Source

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

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Khaled Hammad	Hammad/Maghalsa	-
Abdullah Arab	Arab	zarqa, jordan
Eng.Husam	ُEid	Ain Albasha, jordan
مراد المغالسة	-	-
Mohammed Abdel Aziz Al Sharif	-	-
هناء	hammad	dubai, uae
محمد سعدي حماد المغالسة	المغالسة	amman, عمان الاردن
ABO SIAF	-	JORDAN, JORDAN
nabil	-	الزرقاء, الاردن
منذر احمد ابو عجمية	أبو عجمية	عمان, الاردن
mohammed abu ajammeih	أبو عجمية	عمان, الأردن
احمد	مغالسة	الخليل, مخيم الفوار
rama hammad	-	عمان, الاردن
عبد الرحمن ابو عجمية	-	عين الباشا
wafa	abu ajamea	amman, jordan
ام عدنان	maghalsa	khalda, jordan
moha_real	-	ayn albsha, jordan
شاكر	شاكر ( المغالسة)	عمان
Baha'a	Hammad	Amman, Jordan
Adnan Abu-Ajamieh	Abu-Ajamieh	South Australia, Australia
rula	ابو عجمية	عمان, الاردن
Dr. Sami	Eid	riyadh- Saudi Arabia
HUSAM EDDIN SAMARA	SAMARA-ABU AJAMEEH	JORDAN
Mohammed Al Sharif	Al Sharif	Jordan, Jordan

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