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Welcome To al-Jammasin al-Gharbi - الجماسين الغربي (ג'מאסין אל-ע'רבי)

District of Jaffa
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Picture for al-Jammasin al-Gharbi Village - Palestine: : Two houses in the eastern neighbourhood
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Occupation Date March 17, 1948
Distance From District 6.5 (km) Northeast of Jaffa
Elevation 25 (meters)
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Exodus Cause Fear of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting
Village Temains al-Jammasin al-Gharbi was mostly destroyed with the exception of few houses currently being occupied by Jewish settlers.
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. al-Jammasin al-Gharbi inhabitants were partially intimidated by the Haganah into fleeing their homes on January 7th 1948, and complete ethnic cleansing on March 17th, 1948.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 529
Jewish 714
Public 122
**Total 1,365
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 202 215
Irrigated & Plantation 151 143
Planted W/ Cereal 173 332
Arable 526 690
Non-Arable 125 24
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1931 566
1945 1,080
1948 1,253
Est. Refugees 1998 7,694
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
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Town's Name Through History Jammasin in Arabic means Water Buffalo. The village may have been named after the water buffaloes that the villagers were famous in raising.
Schools al-Jammasin al-Gharbi students used to attend school in the nearby village of al-Shaykh Muwannis.
Inhabitants Place of Origin al-Jammasin's inhabitants were known to be descendants of nomads who had migrated to the area from the Jordan Valley.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
The Tel Aviv municipality
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Village Today

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"A few some what dilapidated houses remain, some inhabited by Jews, others deserted. One inhabited house is a two-storey structure that looks like a conglomeration of unrelated rooms of varying size and shape."
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جاسر أبوداود - -
mohammad abu dawood abu dawood -
وحيدالمسيمي - الاردن - عمان
طارق المسيمي المسيمي MA, USA
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دارين ابو حمدان nablus, plastine
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