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Welcome To Jimzu - جمزو (ג'ימזו)

District of al-Ramla
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Picture for Jimzu Village - Palestine: : مجموعة من زوار القرية من دار الزق امام لافتة تشير للقرية
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Occupation Date July 10, 1948
Distance From District 6.5 (km) East of al-Ramla
Elevation 125 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #17 on the map

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Military Operation First phase of Operation Dani
Attacking Units Yiftach Brigade
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains On September 13th, 1948, Jimzu was completely obliterated and only house walls and rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing Jimzu inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 9,460
Jewish 0
Public 21
**Total 9,681
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 77
Irrigated & Plantation 1,605
Olive Groves 1,400
Planted W/ Cereal 5,577
Built up 50
Arable 7,259
Non-Arable 2,372
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 898
1931 1,081
1945 1,510
1948 1,752
Est. Refugees 1998 10,757
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 268
1948 434
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al-Duhayriyya, Khirbat
         
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Daniyal  
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'Innaba
           
Kharruba
Town's Name Through History The Romans referred to Jimzu by Gimzo.
Schools An elementary school for boys which was founded in 1920, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of 175 students.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
Gimzo
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on a spot that was only slightly higher than the surrounding land. A secondary road linked it to Lydda and another such road led to the neighboring village of Khirbat al-Duhayriyya. Jimzu has been identified with the Judean town of Gimzo, which was mentioned in the Old Testament (II Chronicles 28:18). The only record of the town during Roman times comes from Talmudic sources. In 1596, Jimzu was a village in the nahiya of Ramla (liwa' of Gaza) with a population of 154. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and fruit, as well as on other types of produce, such as goats and beehives.

Edward Robinson visited the village in 1838 and described it as rather large. According to a description from the late nineteenth century, Jimzu was a village built of adobe bricks and situated on the side of a low hill, surrounded by cactus hedges and olive trees. The village's houses were made of mud and stone. Jimzu's residents, who were predominantly Muslim, maintained a mosque. An elementary school was established in 1920; it had an enrollment of 175 students by the mid-1940s. Most villagers worked in agriculture and animal husbandry; they grew primarily grain and fruit. In 1944/45 a total of 77 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 5,577 dunums were allocated to cereals; 1,605 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, 1,400 dunums of which for olives. Material evidence of the early history of the village was abundant.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Several sources report that the Israeli army's Yiftach Brigade occupied Jimzu on 10 July 1948, as part of Operation Dani (see Abu al-Fadl, Ramla sub-district). Egyptian writer Muhammad 'Abd al-Mun'im states that Israeli infantry units that entered Lydda on 11 July came from the direction of Jimzu. The New York Times said that the occupation of this and a handful of other nearby villages 'appeared to be an enveloping action to take out Ramleh.' Many villages in this area were depopulated during the operation, but it is unclear what happened at Jimzu.

Two months later (on 13 September) Israeli Prime Minister Ben-Gurion named Jimzu as one of fourteen villages earmarked for partial destruction. Israeli historian Benny Morris does not say whether this order was carried out.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Gimzo (144148) was established on village land in 1950.

Village Today

All that remains of the houses are stones, strewn over the site, and some crumbled walls (see photos). The site is overgrown with shrubs and thorny plants. Other kinds of vegetation also grow on village land, including Christ's-thorn trees, foxtail, cactuses, and some abandoned olive trees.

Source

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

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