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District of al-Ramla
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Occupation Date | July 10, 1948 | ||||||||||||||||
Distance From District | 6.5 (km) East of al-Ramla | ||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 125 (meters) | ||||||||||||||||
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Map Location | See location #17 on the map View from satellite |
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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 |
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps |
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Land Usage As of 1945 |
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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 NakbaThe 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 CleaningSeveral 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 LandsThe settlement of Gimzo (144148) was established on village land in 1950.Village TodayAll 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.SourceDr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains. |
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Related Maps | Town Lands' Demarcation Maps خرائط للقضاء توضح حدود القرى والاودية Town's map on MapQuest View from satellite Help us map this town at WikiMapia |
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عمار ابراهيم زكي يوسف سعيد عمر | اعمر | فلسطين |
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