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Welcome To Yibna - يبنا (יבנה)

District of al-Ramla
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date June 4, 1948
Distance From District 15 (km) Southwest of al-Ramla
Elevation 25 (meters)
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Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
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Pre-Nakba Aerial View
Map Location See location #35 on the map

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Military Operation Second stage of Operation Barak
Defenders Egyptian Army
Exodus Cause Expulsion by Zionist troops
Village Temains Yibna was mostly destroyed with the exception of couple of houses and the village mosque, but it needs serious renovation guys, any volunteers?
Ethnically Cleansing Yibna inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 37,919
Jewish 2,845
Public 18,790
**Total 59,554
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 6,468 5
Irrigated & Plantation 11,091 13
Olive Groves 25 0
Planted W/ Cereal 15,729 2,754
Built up 127 0
Arable 33,288 2,772
Non-Arable 23,294 73
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 710
19th century 3,000
1922 1,891
1931 3,600
1945 5,420
1948 6,287
Est. Refugees 1998 38,610
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 794
1948 1,386
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al-Maghar
Town's Name Through History During Biblical period, Yibna was known by Jabneel, and the Romans called it Jamnia (Iamnia).
Schools Two elementary schools: one was for boys and the other for girls. The boys' school was founded in 1921 and had an enrollment of 445 students in 1941-42. The girls' school was founded in 1943 and by 1948, had an enrollment of 44 students.
Town's Notable People Yibna is the hometown of Abdel al-Ziz al-Rantisi, who is one of the most prominent political spokespersons of the "Islamic Palestinian Movement", better know as HAMAS.
Places of Warship One mosque built in 1386 (still standing)
Archeological Sites The village contained the remains of a Crusade Castle.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Yavne, Beyt Rabban, Kefar ha-Nagid, Ben Zakkay, Tzofiyya and Beyt Garnli'el.
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Village Before Nakba

The village was located on the coastal plain, about 7.5 km east of the Mediterranean. It was the central node in a transportation network linking the south and the mid-west of Palestine, served by a train station on the Gaza-Lydda railroad, and by the Gaza-Jaffa highway, which passed through the village.

Literary sources provide a reasonably detailed record of the early history of Yibna. It appears in the Bible with the name Jabneel (2 Chronicles 26:6-8) and seems to have been a Philistine town. During Hellenistic times it was both a military and administrative center for the region. Although there is debate about which of the Hasmoneans destroyed the city, it was under their control when the Romans occupied Palestine in 63 B.C. They referred to the town as Jamnia (Iamnia). Gabinius, the governor of Syria (which included Palestine) ordered the town rebuilt. During the reign of Augustus, the village was presented as a gift to Herod the Great, the Romans' client-king of Palestine. It flourished during this period and became the center of a sub-disctrict whose port was larger than Jaffa's. After the Romans sacked Jerusalem in A.D. 70, the Jews transferred their religious council, the Sanhedrin, to Yibna. The Arabs conquered it under 'Amr ibn al-'As (d. A.D. 663), one of the most successful Islamic military leaders. Little is known about Yibna in the early Islamic period. It was mentioned subsequently by a number of Arab geographers and chroniclers. Al-Ya'qubi (d. A.D. 897) described it as one of the ancient cities of Palestine, located on a high hill and inhabited by Samaritans; al-Maqdisi, writing in A.D. 985, said that it had a gem of a mosque. Yaqut al-Hamawi (d. A.D. 1228) wrote in his Mu 'jam that it was 'a small town near Ramla that contained the tomb of one of the Prophet Muhammad's companions, whose identity was disputed.'

During the Crusades Yibna witnessed several battles which took place on the site between A.D. 1105 and A.D. 1123. In a major battle in A.D. 1123 the Crusaders defeated the Fatimids of Egypt. Later on, in A.D. 1141, they built a castle in Yibna and turned it into a strategic defensive position. After the battle of Hittin in A.D. 1187, however, it returned to Muslim hands. It was in Yibna that al-Zahir Baybars of Egypt received the news, in A.D. 1265, of the Muslim triumph over the Tartars in northern Syria. In 1596, Yibna was a village in the nahiya of Gaza (liwa' of Gaza) with a population of 710. It paid taxes on a number of crops (including wheat, barley, summer crops, sesame, and fruits), as well as on other types of produce and property, such as goats, beehives, and vineyards.

The American missionary, William Thomson, visited Yibna in 1834 and described it as a village situated on a hill, with about 3,000 Muslim residents who worked in agriculture. He also said that an inscription on the mosque of Yibna (probably the mosque described by al-Maqdisi) indicated that it was built in 1386.

In the late nineteenth century, Yibna was a large village partly built of stone and situated on a hill. It had olive trees and corn to the north, and gardens nearby. Modern Yibna had four main streets, two that ran from east to west, and two that went from north to south. Its population was predominantly Muslim. There were two elementary schools, one for boys and one for girls. The boys' school was founded in 1921 and had an enrollment of 445 students in 1941-42. The girls' school was founded in 1943 and by 1948, had an enrollment of 44 students. Due to its proximity to the sea, Yibna contained many springs and wells. Citrus was the most important crop. In 1944/45 a total of 6,468 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 15,124 dunums were allotted to cereals; 11,091 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 25 dunums were planted with olive trees

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The village was a bone of contention between Egyptian and Israeli forces in the first week of June 1948. An Israeli military communiqué, quoted by the Associated Press on 1 June, stated that there was an Egyptian advance unit at Yibna. However, Israeli historian Benny Morris notes that the village was occupied by Israeli forces on 4 June, during the second stage of Operation Barak (see al-Batani al-Gharbi, Gaza sub-disctrict). Quoting military sources, Morris writes: 'After mortaring and a brief fight, the units entered the village, which they found deserted ‘save for some old Arab men and women,' who were sent packing.' This account does not quite agree with the version given by the History of the War of Independence, which puts the occupation a day later and gives the takeover a different emphasis:

The Arab village of Yivna [sic], which the Egyptian forces had not reached, was struck with fear upon seeing our [troop] concentrations and its inhabitants abandoned it and, on the night of [June] 4-5, it fell into our hands without fighting.

The New York Times reported a 5 June attack by Egyptian forces on Yibna, 'now held by the Israelis,' but wire services reported that Yibna had been 'recaptured' by Israeli forces that same day.

The United Press (UP) gave yet another version of the occupation of the village, significantly different from Israeli accounts. First, Israeli artillery began to hammer the hilltop village while commandos charged it behind mine-detector teams. 'At sunrise,' the account added, 'civilians could be seen fleeing from the town toward the coast without interference from the Israeli attackers.' Soon afterwards, Yibna yielded, and the Israeli commandos took over the strategic position dominating the coastal road. The UP dispatch stated that Yibna had been the last 'Arab fortress' between Tel Aviv and the front-line Egyptian outposts just north of Isdud.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlements of Yavne (123135) and Beyt Rabban (124136) were built on what was traditionally village land in 1941 and 1946, respectively. Three more settlements, Yavne (126142), Kefar ha-Nagid (126143), and Beyt Gamli'el (127140), were established on village lands in 1949. Ben Zakkay (124140) was founded in 1950, followed by Kefar Aviv (123137) in 1951. (Kefar Aviv's original name was Kefar ha-Ye'or.) Tzofiyya (125140), the most recent settlement, was built on village land in 1955. Kerem Yavne (123135), an educational institution, was established in 1963 on village land.

Village Today

A railroad crosses the village. The dilapidated mosque and minaret, together with a shrine, still remain. At least two of the remaining houses are used by Jewish families and one by an Arab family. One of the houses occupied by Jews is made of concrete; from its flat roof rise an electricity-post and a TV antenna. The other has a gabled roof. The house in which the Arab family lives is quite small and deteriorating; it has a tiled, slanted roof. Nearby is a nonfunctioning well with a circular mouth. A half-cylindrical stone structure is built on a segment of the well and is enclosed by a stone wall at one end.

Source

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