Welcome To Ijlil al-Shamaliyya - إجليل الشمالية (ג'ליל א-שמאליה)

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Statistic & Fact

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Occupation Date

April 3, 1948

Distance From District

15 (km) Northeast of Jaffa

Elevation

25 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #2 on the map

View from satellite

Exodus Cause

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

Village Temains

Ijlil al-Shamaliyya was completely defaced.

Ethnically Cleansing

Either in December 1947 or January 1948 the leaders of al-Shaykh Muwannis, al-Mas'udiyya, al-Jammasin, and the mukhtars of 'Arab Abu Kishk and Ijlil met with Haganah representative in the house of Avraham Schapira in Petah Tikva and expressed desire for peace. Despite the commitment of these villages not harbor any Arab Liberation Armies or local Arab Militia, they were all completely ethnically cleansed. On April 3rd 1948, the inhabitants fleed for their lives fearing Jewish attacks.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	1,900
Jewish	521
Public	39
**Total	2,450

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves	183	0
Irrigated & Plantation	13	0
Planted W/ Cereal	1,574	474
Built up	7	0
Arable	1,770	474
Non-Arable	152	47

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1922	154
1931	305
1945	190
1948	220
Est. Refugees 1998	1,354

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Near By Towns

	al-Haram ↑ (N)	Arab al-Shubaki ↗
Mediterranean ←	Ijlil al-Shamaliyya	→ Abu Kishk
	↓ al-Shaykh Muwannis	↘ Jarisha

Schools

Ijlil al-Shamaliyya had a elementary school founded in 1945, which had an initial enrollment of 64 students.

Places of Warship

One mosque

Archeological Sites

The village contained evidence of tessellated pavements, building foundations, and stone quarrying.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Gelil Yam

Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on a hilltop, overlooking the Mediterranean to the west and a wide expanse of open land to the east. IjIil al-Shamaliyya (northern Ijlil) was approximately 100 m north of its twin village, IjIil al-Qibliyya (southern IjIil). It may have been named after a Shaykh Salih 'Abd al-Jalil. It was laid out in a rectangular pattern that stretched from north to south along the Jaffa–Haifa coastal highway. Its houses were made of adobe bricks or concrete. The population of IjIil al-Shamaliyya was predominantly Muslim. The village had a school, founded in 1945, that also served Ijlil al-Qibliyya; sixty-four students were enrolled in the school's founding year. It also had a mosque and a number of small shops. The villagers cultivated fruit, grain, and vegetables. In 1944/45 a total of 183 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 1,574 dunums were allotted to cereals; 13 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. In addition to agriculture, the villagers engaged in fishing. An archaeological site in the village contained evidence of tessellated pavements, building foundations, and quarrying.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

IjIil al-Shamaliyya was occupied at the same time as its sister village of Ijlil al-Qibliyya (see Ijlil al-Qibliyya, Jaffa sub-disctrict).

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Gelil Yam (134173), founded in 1943 on what were traditionally village lands, is east of the village site.

Village Today

The site is difficult to identify with precision because it is now part of a large garbage dump.

Source

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

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