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Welcome To Jahula - جاحولا (ג'אחולא)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Picture for Jahula Village - Palestine: : جاحولا وعين بلاطه قبل النكبه
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 1, 1948
Distance From District 11 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation 150 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #24 on the map

View from satellite
Military Operation Operation Yiftach (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)
Attacking Units The Palmach's First Battalion
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village has been completely obliterated, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing Jahula inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 1,991
Jewish 583
Public 1,295
**Total 3,869
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 0 100
Planted W/ Cereal 1,626 391
Built up 64 0
Arable 1,626 491
Non-Arable 1,596 92
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 28
1922 214
1931 357
1945 420
1948 487
Est. Refugees 1998 2,992
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 90
1948 122
Near By Townswhat's new
Hulah Lake
       
Qadas  
   Hulah Lake
           
al-Nabi Yusha'

Baysamun
Places of Warship One mosque
Shrines / Maqams One shrine for a local sage known by al-Shaykh Salih
Water Supply The village contained several springs, and one of them is currently being used by Jewish settlers
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
Yiftach is nearby village lands
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated in the foothills of the Galilee Mountains and overlooked the al-Hula Plain on the western side. It was laid out in a north-south direction along the Tiberias-al-Mutilla highway. In 1596, Jahula was a village in the nahiya of Jira (liwa' of Safad) with a population of twenty eight. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat and barley, as well as on other types of produce, such as goats, beehives, and water buffalos. [[Hut. and Abd.:178]] The village mosque, built about 1 km north of the village site, surrounded the shrine for Shaykh Salih, a local religious teacher. Its population was predominantly Muslim. The houses in Jahula were made of masonry. A spring on the northern edge of the village supplied it with drinking water. Although most villagers worked in agriculture, some were employed in the stone quarries north of the village. In 1944/45 a total of 1,626 dunums was used for cultivating grain. Archaeological excavations in 1986 near 'Ayn Jahula revealed that the site had been occupied from the seventh through the third millennium B.C.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Although the exact date of the village's occupation cannot be determined, Jahula was probably taken towards the end of Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-district), around the same time as the seizure of al-Zawiya, 4.5 km to the northeast, and Mallaha, 3.5 km to the southeast, on 24 and 25 May, respectively. [[M:120-24]]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no settlements on village lands. Yiftach (202281) is 2 km northwest of the village site. [[M:xix]]s and trees grow on it. The village spring is still in use by Israelis. Parts of the village land are planted in cotton and watermelons, while other parts are wooded and hilly.

Village Today

The only remains of the destroyed village are a few stone terraces. The site is enclosed by barbed wire, and cactuse

Source

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

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